The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1914-06-12

in previous issues the possibility of
the installation of sampling works at
Oroville, that in operation would be g
clearing house between the mine op-
orator and smelterman, where on the
one hand the producer and owner of
ores, not in position to ship directly
to smelter, is provided with a home
market, and on the other the smelter
operator can secure such ores as he
may desire, or that may be wanted in
combination for the treatment of 9TH
er ores. This proposition has at last
been taken in hand seriously, and
plans are being formulated for the
organization of company with the
object of installing such a plant
So much interest has been mani
tested in the mere suggestion, not
only by men engaged in actual min
ing, ore dealers and smeltermen, but
among all classes of citizens, that the
successful organization of a company
and the final equipment and operation
of a plant is now apparently a ques-
tion of only short time. 1t can be
said at this writing that the sampling
works project is well along in the
formulative stage and consummation
is in sight The uninimity of senti-
ment and expression of endorsement
among business and mining men, and
citizens generally, not only of Oro-
Vile but of every town and locality
in the district, that sampling works
should be located at Oroville, and
placed in commission at the earliest
possible date, is so pronounced that
those who initiated the movement
feel that the project is certain of ac-
complishment.
ing to watch a project the carrying
out of which means much to the COM
munity in which the project is to be
pushed to a finality, gradually cry
stalize into a commin and irresistible
impulse on the part of the people
No proposition aiming at the COM
mon good has ever been suggested
that has so touched the popular pulse
in Oroville as that of the construction
of sampling works. People approach
ed upon the subject are prompt and
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The advantages to be derived from an
institution of the kind are so plainly
obvious that they are Immediately ap-
parent to one and all. Ordinarily in
advancing some enterprise having for
it's object the betterment of COM
munity, directly or indirectly, 1t is
necessary to explain at length the
features of the enterprise advocated,
and too often explanations are not
always convincing, or are accepted
with reservations and doubtful en-
dorsement 1t is altogether different
in this matter of samrling works.
People readily see that if the mining
industry of this locality is ever to
become stable and remunerative some
such provision must be made as a
market for ores, through which the
means will be provided for insuring
mine making. Hence the mere sug-
gestion of sampling works meets with
popular approval.
AS encouragement for residents of
the district and claim holders, 1t can
be stated that preliminary organi-
zation has been completed and ma
chinery, labor, material and money
are being subscribed by those direct
ly and vitality interested in the sue
cess of the undertaking. The purpose
of the sampling works company is to
buy ores, concentrates, gold and sill
yer bullion, and all other mineral
products of the earth that have a
market value and can be resold. AS
further explanation Of the objects
and what may be expected of plant
Of the kind it may be said that to the
sampling works will come ores OF all
grades and character, making it pos,
sible for claim owners to secure re-
turns on ore that would not average
high enough to pay for shipping a long
distance to a smelter. The mine own
er is not the only beneficiary, or the
lone contributor to the support of the
proposed plant, for to such works will
come representatives from various
smelter and reduction plants of the
coast for the purpose of purchasing
ores, and combination of ores, fol
their respective companies. For there
are combinations of ores containing
certain elements required in smelt
ing that smelling men are alway:
looking for, and at sampling works
where such great variety of ores are
received and handled the proper