, 1908-06-09
RAMBLER BEING UNWATERED
AND MADE READY FOR RE
SUMPTION IN PRoDUc-
TIoN OF RICH ORE.
Steam Plant Being overhauled and
Plans Under Way for Air Plant
and Electrical ApplianceeSome
Rich Returns Of Value in Metals
Not Known to Exist When First
Heavy Shipments Were Made.

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The beginning of work at the Ram
bier mine today marks another epoch
in the mining history of this county
and of that celebrated property. NJ. M.
Green, who is now in the city, says
that be has sufficient funds at hand, a
vast sum, to carry the work forward
TO the point where the mine will a
its W expenses and produce an i'm
mense profit. The money on hand
will be used in getting the mine TO
that stage where the rich ores will
bring return an hundred fold, the
friends of the managers believe, and
that right shortly.
viii Unwater Mine.
This morning S. w. Tannenill left
for the mountains with a corps of men
who will first unwater the workings
and then get them ready for the push
ing forward that will follow during
the summer. The machinery will be
overhauled, among the men taken out
today being a boilermaker who will
repair the steam boiler used to fur
nish power for the plant. The pumps
will be started in a couple OF days,
as soon as steam can be furnished to
drive the engine. It is the intention
sor for the driving of the .lIills and
other underground machinery, an cleo
trical plant driven by water being
among the probabilities.
Some Fine Copper Ore.
The Rambler mine Is one of the
noted copper propositions of the south
ern part Of the state. 1t was first
worked as a gold mine, but a large
body Of high grade copper was en-
countered, and later efforts were di-
rectsd toward the development of this.
A large amount OF very hne ore was
taken out, some of it being zen away
to smelters, later one of tne COM
panies owning the mine erecting a
small smelter on the ground. The
long haul for fuel inward and mine
product outward made the process a
most expensive one, and operations
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sold to the Rambler Mining and Smelt-
ing company, and in n shipment of
ore to Chicago it vas discovered that
the ore carried palladium and plati
mum in large quantities. Heretofore
all this value had been lost in treat
ing. Some of the slime from the
mine was sent to assayers and their
returns were marvellous. The s. S
White Dental Manufacturing company
of Philadelphia made return OF an as
say, finding a total value of 1927. OF in
platinum, $393.31 in palladium, $3.50
in gold and $21.21 in silver.
High Grade Copper.
The Chicago Copper Refining com
pany handled 25S.S6 tons of the pres
from the Rambler mine, the gross
value Of which was $~24,S7435. This
company treated eleven ears of ore,
the copper running 32.0S, 1884, 1883,
1892, 1899. 32.O3, 31.63, 32.26,36.6S,
81 .33 and 1896 per cent in copper.
Goldsmith Bros. of Chicago treated
n pound net of powder from the con-
centrates, finding the value per ton in
platinum was $6,52S, in palladium
s4,9S0, a total value per ton for the
two metals of SHOPS.
Or. Days opinion.
DR.. David T. Day of Washington,
chief of division of the United States
geological survey, in a letter to Frank
NJ. Wootton of Madison, Wis, presi-
dent of the company, on speaking of
some tests he had been making of ores
from this mine, says: These heads
ran only 1853 unce to the ton, where
as they should have shown over three
gone into the heads. In other words,
half of the total platinum was lost by
the concentration. This shows, in my
judgment, that the material was not
crushed sufficiently fine. 1t is per-
fectly evident from our examinations
that the platinum minerals in the ore
are extremely evenly divided, and
probably always occur in the copper
ore and pyrite, and unless pains are
taken to a v all of the copper ore and
pyrite, some of the platinum would go
to waste"
Check for Value.
Baker & Co., gold, silver and plati-
mum reiners of Chicago, writing to
the Rambler company, say: "In reply
to your communication of the 26th
ult., we would state that the shipment
OF shines, which were forwarded by
your direction to us from the Chicago
Copper Refining company some months
since, weighed 140h pounds, and the
assay value of the same, as reported
in our last communication, was $500
per pound. We enclose herewith
check for sSs5.15 covering the value
Of the consignment, n trust that the
same will be satisfactory"
Now Near the Railroad.
The Rambler mine will be brought
within eight miles Of the railroad by