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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1904)
1 Wednesday, June 22, 1904 THE SUMPTER MINER HALF INTEREST IN MONUMENTAL SOLD So it is Stated on Apparently Reliable Information, Though Non-Official Authority. It comee to The iMiuer throtiKU mi apparently reliable, though uon ollloial eourue, Hint exteiinlvo im prove incuts are to be undertaken at the Monumental very hhortly. Tho improvementH involve the hhIo of a ln 1 f interest in the property, ho it. in Htaled, for tho consideration that $00, 000 Ih to lie expert nod in the remortnl lliiK to ho present milling plant and the itiHtallation of additional mauhiu ury. C. J. Allen, of Portland, manag ing owner of the property, Ih not in town, and therefore ofllclal verillca tiou cannot be fonirod. llovever, the report nlutoH thut Mr. Allen litis fold a one-half inloroKt in the mine to S. W. Stclt'iHM- nn I ,1. M. HutchiiiH, both of Chattanooga, Toiiiiohhoo, for the ooiiHideration named. No money changed IiuikIh in the trauHiietion, hut the new people me to malte the ex pednituie st forth in machinery and euipmeut, and in addition are to keep a crew , of nixteen men at de velopment work from July 1, 1004 to .Inly 1,. 100a. The report, goon on further to Htate that the Chattanooga oaplttillntH will shortly be on hand to begin work. They aie rated an men of meauH, amply able to make good in the im provementH outlined. These thingn have come to The Miner through what Itconnidcrrian eminently reliable source, and it, therefore, in the ashence of official information, gives them publicity. The Monumental is an old and well known property, a former pro ducer, opened originally as a si Ivor proposition. It was among the llrsl properties operated in the district. The fact that gold exists In paying (plant ities as later discoveries indi cate, renders the present mill in adequate, and a change in machinery necessary. RICH GOLD FIND ON GRAYBACK MOUNTAIN The following sto-y of a rich strike is sent out from Mcdfoid. this state, under a recent date: William Cilmore, just in from Cirayback Mountain, twenty miles east of Waldo, brings evidence of the greatest gold strike ever made .in southern Oregon. He brought with him rock en trying ' per cent gold. The tlnd was made by Harry liriggs, 18 years of age, while hunting deer. He broke a piece of ledge capping and mortared it, getting 700 pieces of gold, that weighed six pounds. O. ,1. Ho'snrd, David Hiiggs, Henry liriggs and Frank Thompson pounded out 8:1,800 on Tuesday with an old fashioned mortar. A streak ten inches wide has been proved a distance on the surface of sixty feet, exposing 'J, 000 square feet of mineral. Miners are leaving for the now ciimp ami there is greater ex citemeut than in the days of Hold Hill. The mH'ijo of the strike is near the California line and on the divide between the Illinois and Klamath rivers, whore ureiit pl'icer beds were found in the early days. in outs. Mr. Hrown advised the clerk of the New Vork court that he would t postpone the sale of the petsoual i property until June t!7lh and the real I I property until ilune .'10. as a matter J I of accommodation to the New Voik i creditors. Demociat. TO START WORK ON MOUNTAIN VIEW MILL Dr. Walter Techow, superintendent, of the Mountain View, (Mime down from the mine today and left for Maker City. Dr. Techow says work is to be started on the new mill very soon. Part of the miichiuery Ih already in Kumptor. This will be hauled out to the property next week. The rest, of the equipment is expected to arrive in about three weeks. The snow is all gone in the vicin ity of the mine, Dr. Techow says, and the roads are now in good shape foi getting in the stulf. The lumber will be gotten on the ground soon, and const ruction work will lie under way in a short time. Federal Versus Stale Courts. It leaked out yesterday afternoon that Sheriff Harvey K. Hrown had notified the clerk of the Uuied States circuit court tor tho southern district of Now Vork, that his duty was to tho circuit court of Haker county and that ho mint carry out tho orders of the latter court for the sale of the personal and real property of the Coruucopiu Mines, to eatisfy attach- Has Rich Dirt. William Hussletou is in today from (Sold t'eiiler, wheiehe is operat ing some placer chima. He thinks he has something pretty rich. Recently he took j?o or 6C in uuugets and coarse gold from six wheel ban ows of dirt. labor Ore Rich. ! The Tabor Ki act ion people aie, still getting exceptionally high grade oi e, according to all reports. A , crosscut has been carried from the i IMO-font level a distance of forty toot, and a taise is now being made to tho sixty-foot level. 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