The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1902-10-15
WORK AT THE
CALIFORNIA
Oregon Record Smashed in
Opening Up This Mine.

The California mine, owned by Il,
Turnagain Arm Gold Mining company
oi Minneapolis, is the scene of much nc
tivity NJ this time. The sawmili is nov
nt work cutting lumber foi the concc,,
trnting plant, the building for which i
being erectsl ~ rapidly M the limitc'
force ot carpenters can push the work
II iIas hcen impossible to SECURE all th'
carpenters that could k employed 4
advantage, ewing to the large amount %
building nov being done in Sumptcr an,
throughout the district.
The slwmill has u capacity oi thirt,
to forty Thousand feet day, driven b,
the 7b.iiorse power engine, and IL nov
cutting up logs much faster than tn,
lumlnr IL needed. The saw itself il n
56.inchcr II will be used permanently ly
for getting out timbers for the mine,
after the buildings ARE all con, pleted.
Az stated u week ar two ago, the mot.
i've power has all been moved from the
old tunnel house Ia the mill site, where
the conccntrator is being erected. There
are Nv" boilers oi dD.horsc power each,
one engine 75 and one of 2O.horsc power.
The former IN now hing used to drive
tho sawmiii and its installation il only
Temporary. II will furnish motive
yowcr ior the rollers and mir com ,rcssor,
AMI tho smaller one for the vanncrs.
They will ta IN one rWom and can liz
operated by one man, n saving Oi wages
and fuel and otherwise M economical
arrangement,
Two Cornish rolls, with u crushing
capacity II IN tons u day. have been de.
livcr,si on the ground. The concentra.
tors and o,l',r machinery will arrive at
an early dav. probably before they ARE
nec,icd. THE managers oi this property
have had the ores tested by the hest
experts in the west. and know exactly
what they are loing-they are not max.
ing the ordinary mistake oi guessing
what process is needed Tor saving values.
~ learn that they GUESSED wrong. after
the was,eiul expenditure of thousands.
An aerial tram. .s,N feet IN length,
will ,~ constructed this fall. for the dc.
livery III ore from, the working tunnel
n,o,,h 4" the mill. II will H operated
On the gravity system, the loaded buck
cts olrVa,ing the rmptirs.
Tim,~rs aud tagging have been gotten
nut sufficient to last all winter. another
~ise m"v. that will save the company
much money, There are also 1000 cords
oi fuel w"Sd piled up convenient /" I'll"
furnaces,
THE California IT, nov opened up with
over o,,o Mile al underground workings.
There ARE seven tunnels, all driven in on
thu ledge. the lower one hing something
over 700 iect long and attaining vrrti.
cal depth ii 0S5 icct. They are connect
.d by upraisrs, aiiording the hest venti-
lstion known Ia mining engineering.
With all this work, there will, oi
course, h" no difficulty in supplying the
mill with ere ior many months Ia come, /
even should no more work l1 done. But
, he policy oi the company IL said Ia l1
Ia block out ore lsdics at least six |
in advance oi the reduction |
plant. and with this in view, u full force
Il miners will In kept constantly at
work.
II il now estimated that the mill will |
Ia in operation by January /. These
polls hustlers have already bro
ken the eastern Oregon record in devcl'
,ping a mine, and II they succedln their
,iIurt to turn ont concentrates from
heir. own mill by January, they will
nav. set n pace tina, lew will ever equal,