The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1916-02-11
STEWART.CALVERT co. NOT DIS.
COURAGED BY WEATHER.
OUTPUT TWENTY TONS PER DAY
Product Is Being Crushed, Sacked and
shipped from Here to Far East
ern Markets.

There is an important industry at
this place that the severe weather Of
the past winter has not materially
tion of the Stewart Calvert company,
that owns and controls the two salts
lakes near Oroville In the very coldest
weather the company was doing some
thing, and during the past week the
activities have been greater than at
interested in the project. The company
Is taking advantage of the freeze up
to extract as much salts as possible,
because with the breaking up of winter
the lakes will be covered many feet
deep with surface water. At present,
all extraction is concentrated at the
Rayburn Spotted lake, on Kruger
mountain, across the line in British
Columbia and some ten miles from
Oroville. A dozen two and four horse
wagons are hauling in salts every day
from that lake, and the deliveries
amount to some 90 tons daily. 1t is
necessary to cut through almost "a
inches of ice in order to reach the salts
deposit. Under the ice the salts are in
crystaliZed state. 1t is scooped out
ir slabs and loaded into wagons in
bulk. The salts itself, does not freeze
solid.
The deliveries are made at the Oro-
Vile Commercial company's warehouse
on the railroad tracks, where an enor-
nous amount of the salts have ~accn-
mulated. AS it comes to the warehouse
! is in large crystalized chunks, and
il that condition il could not be sack
ed or shipped. In order to prepare it
for shipment the Stewart-Calvert COM
pany have installed two crushers that
are operated with electric power. Prob
ably it would be more proper to say
that one of the mills is crusher and
the other is a pulvorizer, for the salts
is first run through an ice crusher,
which reduces the crystals to small
size and belt carries the salts to an
other mill, or pulvorizer, which re-
duces it almost to powder. From this
last treatment the salts flow directly
into a sack, which is fitted like sacks
are attached to a threshing machine.
When sufficient number of sacks are
filled they are loaded upon cars and
shipped to the eastern market, and the
market is prepared to take all that the
company can supply.
This work of salts extraction prom
ises to be permanent as it is very
important industry, at Oroville, be-
cause the quantity is inexaustible and
the quality is such as to command a
ready market for all that can be de-
livered. The work of extraction hand
ling, treatment and shipping gives en-
ployment to a large number of men,
that provides steady and certain
monthly pay roll for the town, and
that is something that is of direct
benefit to every branch of business.
The Calvert company is here
to stay. The company have made large
investments and extensive improve
ments. That is the very best feature
Of the proposition, and it means that
the extraction of salts is to continue
indefinitely. The Stewart-Calvert peo-
pie have put up money willingly and
are taking the chances of making this
venture a paying one. For their enter
prise they deserve success, and that is
what this paper wishes them, or any
other company that starts legitimate
| industry in good faith