The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-10-21
R0N FOR ALL needs
u,cK SANDS OF COAST RICH
IN ORE.
,.a;caI Survey Officials Say the
,,,,hwest Has lnexhauStible
..,o,ies That Are Easily Re.
,,ced-lon OF Sand Yielded
81, pounds of Iron.

6aJ POUNDS OF sTo'''
o-.lond. Or, Got. 18.-"All that
fO .sod for the establishment Of iron
hs n's at dozen points along the
lna ..;s, coast of the Northwest that
fs ;" r;yal those of Pittsburg and other
s VIII cities is the application Of
ha a;,al and enterprise in the handling
c ssho material that lies in inexhausti-
u onaptities at a hundred places
along the coast
This is the announcement MADE by
r. navid T. Day. chief of the mining
n.;sion of the United States geolog-
.'I survey, who, with his associates,
"" for several months been expert
-. ~sDtiup with q variety Of sands taken
. no the bays. river beds and other
.Isces inland and on the coast.
These experiments have been carried
. .. feature of the government work
=, The Lewis and Clark exposition.
~ho rosults of their work in the extrac-
INN Of gold from certain black sands
.ston from river beds have been made
tnovp. The discovery of the highest
..sae and most valuable iron known
y tho world-and that in unlimited
0nsptities-is the latest developmens.
AT Mouth of Columbia.
4. the month of the Columbia river
n, Dav and his assistants have found
immense deposits of magnetic, or
moUnetic iron, and the DOCTORS inter.
STING statement in this connection is
that the find rivals in Importance the
Ichest of iron ore in the Lake Superior
region.
1T il the same sort of ore," said he,
o, that from which the famous Nor
vsv iron and steel-with which the
world as yet has nothing else to COM
usre-is made. In Norway and Ger
mspy iron manufacturers have for
wears been working this mineral and
turning out products that are the des-
uair Of the other iron producers Of the
world.
Further, the deposits we have
found at the mouth of the Columbia
is only one of 600 or more along the
coast. There are similar beds of the
stuff at river mouths and inlets all
along the Northwest coast. Magnetic,
aN we'll known, is the richest of all
iron ores, and the deposits we have
found are equal in every way to the
ores from which the world renowned
Norway iron and steel are made"
"0ne.Third Pure riagnettte."
Dr. Day and his associates have built
at their quarters on the fair grounds
an electric smelling plant for the
Treatment of magnetic iron orc taken
from the mouth of the Columbia river.
The smelter has just been completed,
and as result of the first run the doc
tor gives out the news that from q ton
Of the black sand treated he has secur-
1853 pounds of iron. A carload Of
the sand was found to be one-third
pure magnetic.
For months DR.. Day has been con-
'lnced that deposits of the kind could
siound along the Coast, but it was
aof until recently that the existence Of
zoe material in commercial quantities
vas positively made known. Then
Aohief of the mining division Of the
sNloglcal survey set about securing
usservlces of an electrical smelter
apeft for experiments in the reduction
u1ne ore. c. E. Wilson, a man Of
a'nenal fame IN this line of work,
V" engaged, and he and DIR. Day last
4'ek built and put into operation q
'uail electric smelling plant. The
''sults OF the first run are given above.
Other Minerals Found.
n. lou people of the Northwest, said
bs ~. Jay deserve the appellation Of
salOsrians until you learn to make
wv, ,0 own iron and steel. As long as
ns.s continue importing everything
~. a''u s IN the iron and steel line from
S s1 east you are merely colonists or
''ppe n of the East.
IL, win the inexhaustible deposits Of
, oo highest grade of magnetic iron at
ON nv uoors' and easily reduced, you
in -. usRe anything known or needed
ara; ue iron or steel line. There is here
rs taxable enough iron to build the
p' states another navy"
,ha D u the discovery of magnetic on
iov. oeAst is not the only result Of the
Pan S =; of DR.. Day since he be-
inar us work at the fair. A mineral
it. as monozite-so named because
usoas ~ iase-is used largely in the
Esl. alacture Of the manteis Of the
70 all Ta &c style Of gas burner. Hither-
ob,,;. VI this mineral 80 used has been
thu que from mines in Brazil, with
IN Nns. eptlon Of a small portion mined
that ;n Carolina. DR.. Day announces
hsvs immense deposits of the substance
sucs oeen found within q. short dis
kuow.o VI Portland. Another mineral,
surs =. as zircon, used in the manufao-
disoo y, 'ne Nernst light, has also been
'''ered near here.
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