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ftrEDFOTlD MATE TRTBTTME. MEDFORD, OKF.flOX. TUESDAY. MAKOIl 6, 1.017
FIELD PROCESS
By V. W. WATSf INT.
While considering the frross value
of the vast bodies of ores of various
' kinds in this neglected mineral dis
trict and the menus of tlieir extrac
tion and trcntment, it is well to lake
into consideration the processes that
will produce the best results commer
cially. The blast furnace process is
well known; but in this nt;e of prog
ress, when the inventive genius of the
world is producing .sensations in al
most every department of human am
bition, the (treat wonder is that the
large interests cnuaffcd ill mining for
precious metals have endured the old
way so long and so patiently.
Anions those locally who have for
sonic time been carefully investiuut
j',' the field process is Judge V. E.
Crews, who is probably more com
petent to speak of that somewhat
startling invention that anyone else
in this district. Concerning it. Judge
Crews, in n statement replete with
! interest, said today:
Tremendous AVasto.
"The tremendous waste occasioned
in the extraction, hauling;, shipping
and treating of the ores of the Itlue
Ledge copper district by the present
methods employed by the blast fur
nace smelters at Tacoma, Kennel t and
. elsewhere, when carefully consid-red,
is simply appalling. When you take
into consideration that these ores
contain over ,'10 per cent sulphur,
large quantities of iron and some
zinc, as well as copper, gold and sil
ver, and by analysis you will find
that at least one-third of the true
values consist in products other than
the copper, gold and silver; and con
sidering that all of the values other
than the last three mentioned are
wasted or lost to the shipper, ami he
only receives returns on the copper,
gold and silver content, and much of
that, is lost on account of the method
employed, by reason of the high tem
. poratnrc, in the blast furnace prne
tfa't ship loss, etc., it. therefore, he
comes interesting lo study and con
sider the method of treating sulphide
ores such as are found in the lilac
Ledge district by what is known as
the Field processes.
Smelter Fumes.
"Anyone who has given ore treat
ment any consideration whatever re
alizes that the great cost, trouble
and misery those who employ the
blast furnaces have been subjected to
on account of what is known as smel
ter fumes (which is nothing more than
throwing off through their smoke
stacks the sulphur, arsenic, and other
properties which are destructive to
plant life), is an element in smeller
operation, to overcome which scien
tists have apparently been completely
baffled, and on account of which they
have not been allowed to erect and
operate! such smelters in forest re
!ives or other places where vegetn
lion or plant life is of any value.
'Now, the Field processes com
pletely controls, utilizes and save
the so-called smelter fumes, which in
fact constitute n very large portion
of the real value of the ores, lie ha
therefore, after a careful investiga
tion by the government agents and
through demonstrations on his 'own
part by a plant built and operated for
that purpose at lledding, Cnl., been
permitted by the government to oper
ate his plant in any forest reserve or
elsewhere, and his company guaran
tees that no objectionable fumes or
gases or other destructive features
will be apparent. And he proposes to
treat ores and save even particle of
the values contained in the same for
a far less price per ton lhan is now
charged by the smelters in this coun
try. Have Hiwl Their ltay.
"A careful consideration and study
of this process will convince one that
within ten veal's there will not be om
the old-time wasteful blast fur
nace smeU"rs in operation in this
country, but that the clean, econom
ical and complete value-saving pro
cess proposed by .Mr. Field will take
their place.
"tine can plainly see that tin
amount of ore that can be handled by
this process is only measured by Ihr
size of the plant. This is in fact not
a new process as far as the melal
lurgv end is concerned. The new idea
consists in the doing away with the
funics by simply saving them, who'
is a very large part of the ore value
The chemical extraction of metal is
a verv old anil popular method anil is
rin practice in foreign countries when
acids are cheaply produced.
"If Mr. Field is induced in cro!
and establish a plant in southern r-
Peon 1 am sati.-ficd that he will he
able to operate at a profit on lower
grade ores which cannot be done by
the present day methods. And when
we consider the great tonnnL'e of low-
grade ores in southern Oregon thai
the smelters can't handle because of
their metallic loss occasioned by the
high tempera! ure employed in Ibc
l)lus.t furnace practice, slag loss and
P4GE THREE
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CHIEF FIGURES IN INAUGURATION DAY SUFFRAGE ACTIVITIES
I ii i V'fe.-Vi
I i! pi SOUTHERN PACIFIC
Mm MAY RETAIN IIS
' M STEAMER LINES
' . fix i m :
T GRILLS 4$F
SENATORS J
REDACTION
WERNER HORN
practices." the decision says, 4'would
leave no basis of record to justify the
withholding of thi requisite finding,
muter the uet. thut ttie exlstlnj ser
vice of these rteamship linos between
New York and New Orleans and New
Yorl: and Oulveston is In the interest
ol the public anri of Edvantago to the
convenience and commerce ot tho peo
ple.
'The case will bo held open for GO
days during which time the petitioner
will have an opportunity to readjust
the practices in question so as to
Miss A ida Mdholland, in the center,
is the successor to her sister, the late
Inez Milholland lioiscvaiu, who led
the suffrage parade on inauguration
day four years ago. Others prominent
in the day's news in Washington arc;
Mrs. J. A. Hopkins .(upper left), Mrs.
O. II. P. Hchnonl (left), and Miss
Alice Paul (beneath), Miss Iieulah
Amnion (upper right), Miss Anne
Martin and Miss Fdith fioodc (left to
light) below.
WASIIIXflTOy, March C The
statement issued by the president
concerning the action of n dozen sen
ators ia killing the armed neutrality
bill by filibuster is in part as follows:
"The Icrmiiuit.iou of the last, ses
sion id' the sixty-fourth congress by
constitutional limitaiioil discloses a
situation unparalleled in the history
of the country, perhaps unparalleled
in the history of any modern govern
ment. Kails ill ll Crisis.
In the immediale presence of a
crisis fraught with more subtle and
l'nr-ronching possibilities of national
danger than any other the government
has known within the whole history of
its international relations, the con
gress has been unable to act cither
to safeguard the country or to vindi
cate the elementary rights of jls citi
zens. "More than odd of the 531 mem
bers of the two houses were ready
and auxins to act; the house of rep
resentatives had acted, by an over
whelming majority: but the senate
was unable to act because a little
group of eleven senators had determ
ined that it should not.
Physical Kndiirnnco Supreme.
"The senate has no rules by which
debate can be limited or brought to
an end, no rules by which dilatory
taclics of any kind can be prevented.
A single member can stand in the
way of action if he had but Ihe phys
ical endurance. The result in this
case is a complete paralvis alike of
the legislative and of the executive
branches of the government.
"This inability of the senate to act
has rendered some of the most neces
sary legislation of the session impos
sible, at a lime when the need lor it
was most pressing .Mid most evident.
"The appropriations for the army
have failed, along with the appropri
ations for the civil establishment of
the government, the appropriations
for the military academy at West
I'oinl, and the general deficiency bill.
It has proved impossible to extend the
powers of the shipping board to meet
the spec ial needs of the new situation
into which our commerce has been
forced or to increase the gold re
solve of our national banking system
to meet the unusual circumstance
the existing financial situation.
Only One Itcincdv Presented.
LOSES APPEAL
WASHINGTON, March C Werner
Horn, the German reservist lieutenant
who dynamited the international
bridge near Vaneeboro, Me., in l!).l."t,
today lost his habeas corpus suit ill
the supreme court, in which he sought
to avoid being tried at Boston for al
leged transportation of explosives oa
passenger trains.'
The court did not decide Horn's
contentions that, in a belligerent act
against Canada, his German army
commission exempted him from Amer
ican prosecution and made him pun
ishable only by the state department.
The court said Horn's appeal was not
authorized and dismissed it.
At the regular Monday meeting of
the Ministerial association of Mod
ford and vicinity the following reso
lution was unanimously adopted:
"liosolved, That we express our ap
preciation and indorsement of our
representatives in the good work that
they have done in the state legisla
ture; that we likewise express our
appreciation and indorsement of our
city officials in the good work that
they are doing in cleaning up ipics
tionalile places in the city.''
Members present ami voting: A. A.
J. Hogg, president; J. II. Wylie, sec
retary; F. W. CarMcns, .1. K. JSaillie,
W. F. Smith.
Dry, Hoarse or Painful
Coughs Quickly
Ended
II one-Ma tip Krmedy Ihnt Sarrs
TkoroiiKhl)'.
WASHINGTON, March C The
interstate commerce commission in a
decision handed down today indicat
ed that the Southern raelfic may re
tain possession ot its steamship lines
between New York und New Orleansi
cue New York and Galveslou if the
company correct within .' ixty days
certain objectionable practices nt
present in force.
. Under tho Panama cannl law the
railroad company would have to dls
peso of the steamers unless the com
nission found that railroad owner
ship did not tend to reduce compel!
tion by water and that such owner
ship was in public Interest.
Tho commission's doclslon today
duds thu: the railroad's control or
the steamship Hoc does not tend to
red ice competition in this instance
hut that there is on the contrary
activo competition for trans-conti
nental freight between tho steamsbli
lines and the railroad lines of the
Southorn Pacific.
lho correction ot objectionable
Bud Lawrentz
has purchased an lnteerst with 0
P. Williams in tho
Med ford ;
Cleaning Works
All Kinds of cleaning work guar
anteed. Wo call for and deliver
goods.
Phono 57 8 S. Centra
hriug the service Into full conform
ity with the provisions of the act to
rer.ulale commerce as a mended. At
tnc expiration ot that time the com
mission will de erniino what final ac
tion should be taken,"
The chief practice referred to as
objectionable is tho method of billliih'
from New York to Galveston and re
billing at Galveston to western points.
The commission found that no coin
petition existed in the case ot lines
operating between New Orleans and
Havana.
WASHINGTON, March 6. The de
cision on the constitutionality of the
Adtimson railroad law wu not an
nounced today by the supreme court,
although It had been expected.
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