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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1904)
Wednesday, June 22, 1904 THh bUMPTER MINhR CORPORATION INSPECTOR Subject Will Be Discussed at Meeting of Min ing Congress. Tho movement recently started under the auspices of tho Hooord looking to tho enactment of laws, cither state or national, for tho in spection of mining company affairs, is to t)o brought prominently hoforo tho Portland .session of tho American Mining Congress. Fred (J. Shaffer, of Idaho Springs, who has hoon named as delegate by Governor Peabody. announces his iuoutiou of introducing a resolution bearing upon this important question, Mr. Sliaffer was in Denver today and ho consented to discuss the matter at some Jonglli. "1 regard tho American Mining Congress as ono of tho most potent; factors contributing to the general success of tho mining industry of the nation " said Mr. Sliaffer." It bears tho same rolaion to tho mining in dustry that tho National Live Slock .Association bears to tho stock in dustry of tho country, or tho Manu facturer's Association beats to tho world of manufacture. 'For tho past eight years 1 have taken a solicitous interest in tho affairs of this congress and was greatly pleased when tiovornor Pea body notified mo that I had boon appointed a delegate from Colorado to attend tho mooting at Portland Ore. While engaged ns a reporter on tho Denver Post nearly eight yearg ago, I assisted Mr. Motion in my humble way in the promotion of tho first mooting, which was hold at tho Hroadway thoatro, in Denver. At that time it. was known as the Inter national Mining Congress. The first mooting was a success and presaged tho influence that tho congress has wrought throughout tho country. "Von may state that I shall cor tainly attend tho meeting of the con gress, because I have in view tho idea of presenting to tho delegates the theory advanced by the Da il Mining Record a month ago, in lofor once to the appointment of inspect ors, oithei state or national, to attend to tho alfairs of tho various mining corpoartions. 1 am standing linn in tho 1)0 lief that this theoiy, if properly followed to its conclusion, is about tho only one that will guarantee adequate protection to the investing public. "At the meeting of the congress 1 shall ask to bo heard upon certain resolutions bearing upon tho prop osition to have these inspectors ap pointed, either by state or national action. Should the United States government give to mining a place in tho cabinot, thou in that caso govern ment supervision through inspectors, tho same as tho natioual bank ex aminers, can bo made effeotivo and reach the desired end. "If, however, tho government takes no part in this mattter, then tbo several states can appoint in spectors and protect the interests of the industry. If there are any readers ot the R6 cord who have auy suggestions to make or thiuk of anything that would be of asssiUnce to me iu mak ing this fight at Portland, I should bo pleased indeed to hoar from them and to take advantage of whatever good may bo offered in the various suggestions. "Ono thing is certain, and that is that the outside investor is entitled to protection, either by state or uational enactment. "- -Daily Mining Record. CROWDING WORK Al VALLEY QUEEN JL Advices from the Valley Queen, iu tho Cable Cove district, state that the management has started a shaft on the Pentateuch claim, just over tho apex of (Soddess mountain from tho main tunnel on tho same vein. It is the intention to push this work and also the main crosscut at. the same time. The vein on tho Ponta tuch, if is stated, assays well where opened, showing as high as 6(5!) in gold. The main crosscut is aimed to strike this shaft at con siderable depth. It is the intention of tno company to put a llufl'alo whim iu the shaft in a short, time, and install a hoist and boiler later on. Tim force has boon increased and it is understood that a further addi tion is to bo made in a short time. Wheeler & Company, Now York, tluaucial .igouts for the Valley Queen, have instructed Superintendent Cray to crowd the work as tepidly as possible. LOOKING FOR A MINING PROPfRTY S. CJ. Craudall, of Tacoma, well known in mining, elides, arrived horo yesterday with a view to secur ing a property in this district. Mr. Craudall left on this afternoon's train without having made any extended investigations. Ho will probably re turn in a short time and make further investigation. Mr. Craudall is just back from a mining trip through Idaho and Mon ti,. in, whore he is largely interested. At Custer, Idaho, he is associated with Henry Hewitt, Jr., the Tacoma lulimermau. Minimi Edition. A. L. Morris, formerly mining editor of the Portland Telegram, has severed his connection with that paper, and now has charge of the mining congress edition of the Paolf ic Miner. Mr. Morris will visit allj the mining Feetions of the state and devote his time to getting out an edi Hon exhaustively covering the situation, ir WILL BE 10 YOUK INTEREST If you contemplate visiting tho St. Louis exposition, to secure tollable information as to railroad service, tho lowest rates and the best routes. Also as to local conditions in St. Louis; hotels, etc., etc. If you will writo tho undersigno i, stating what information you desire, tbo same will be promptly furnished. If we do not have it on hand, will secure it for you if possible, and without auy expense to you. Address R H. TKUMIiULL, Commereil Agent 142 Third street, Portland, Oregon. Lu.L- BACILLUS OF THE MOUNTAINS With it Every Prospector" is Inoculated and ! the Spell Lasts a Life Time. Who is lie and wliat is he, this sin gular man? Did 1 1 ret Unite have him well as tho red-sliirted, rough man who tossed his bug of dust carelessly to John Oakhursl over the gaining table, or is he the man you see in .Alaska, Cripple Creek or Idaho today? Who knows? A curious typo! Virgil sang of the "accursed lust for gold." Did ho mean our pros pector or the cruel, punting, auimal like greed of tho man of the cities? Certainly of the last, wo are sure. No mart or bourse is for the pros pector. Tho mighty roar of Katllrs on the Loudon exchange never by fain echo reaches the true brospector "up country" from the claims, now I mines, that lie discovered. I Tho streets, the roar of the cities, j choke and bewilder the prospector, j Ho sees afar always the foothills, that cling like ugly, misshapen children to the feet of their mighty mother, the main range. All thai beckons and culls to him. In scrutable, wonderful, awo-iuspriring, those mountains! Ves, to many. Not to the prospector. To him they are treasure houses. Ho means to unlock them. Ho intends they shall yield to him, that their wealth shall ring as minted gold through tho world. May it ever be as clean as when ho tore it from the (Mirth! The mountains call and beckon and ho goes. You, doubling scientists, with your culture lulu's of gelatine, tilled with bacilli, you do not know there is a bacillus that you never saw, that you never isloated and wrote a mono graph about, it is the bacillus of the mountains- the gold bacillus! Kvory prospectot is inoculated with that bacillus so thoroughly that the rest of the world which ho thinks exists, a true liKorvor knows is lint a dream to him. Mi si; li'H, (Mere is an f.ast once i he left a girl, a sweet heart theio, , She is old now; so is he, but he real j i.es neither. Maybe uepliews are there. .Sometime ho is going caM. Ho will do "lots" lor the folks, I here They seem icul to him. In reality they aie dieams, and ho is a misty memory to them. The mountains are real. Ills' (dan have opened the withered, parched Australian fields, have sur passed explorers in Alaskan snows, huvo gazed on scenery in tno Kookiea that Titian, Jtanheoll never saw, and on which man looks iu awo and thinks of tho sublimity of Cod- but ho nees only tho chances tor gold. He penetrated Africa, and there is the Transvaal. The flnaucloru of the world came and grappled and strug gled, and great London rang with stories of the wealth. Cabinets dis cussed tho land, tho roar of siege guns, tho bark of tho Maxim, tho legions of men, an empire's might, dead and dying at the M odder, al Magorsfontein, drew tho gaze of tho world, and in the background, atone, unseen, i.nkeeded, was the first cause, tin' last cause -the prospector and the discovery of gold! The s; Hit that made Drake ravage the Spanish main h his. The gtoon Mug of Maliomet. inspites hi.- followers no more than the cry ot "Cold" does the prupfcctnt. The ozone of the r iiuntaius, ho death-dealing ait of the west coast, the great rivers or sen, the patched desert, all is the same when gold is the tallying cry. With tlie best divining tod. a pick, a burro, a little puwdct and some grub, lie moves to the attack, and often, very often, the grim moun tains surrender. Then then is another Portland, Le l'oi or Hassiok. Then a camp, people, schools, churches and mills. With these the iiitcicst ot the pros pector ceasi s. Some day he packs his jacks, ho outfits them quietly and slips away. He has heard of gold elsewhere. He has heard the mountains call him from afar. ' He goes to seek again among them. We have seen men rise at banquets and heard them reply to toasts, but not for us to applaud them. We hear the stories of the soldier and sailor, not for us "to sing of men and arms. " lint we would like to rise to speak of the prospector, him of deeds of dariim-do, of romance, of haidship, 1. 1' privation, of wealth-giving to the world, of him to whom the recesses of all continents are his woiking ground. Uicliard Uoolof, In Daily .Mining Ivccnrd. SPECIAL NOTICE If you want to read a free and inde pendent paper, devoted to the inter est of mining and current events, which is not controlled by any pro moling concern, such as most of the papers in (lie east are, send for a free sample copy of NEW YORK BANKER Jit HHOADWAY, NKW YOUK THE NATIONAL BANKER 8 80 li Stile St. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS A journal of National circulation. Is read by hunkers, capitalists, in-'cslm-s, retiied merchants. If yon tant to reach a good class of buyers and the irMiieyd and investing pub lic, advertise iii the National Manlier, Thousands of copies c if each issue of tlin National Hanker goes to investors throughout the Middle West, Kastern and New Kugland states. The host journal in the count ry iu which to reach investor. Sample copies free Advertising iittes on application. THE SUMPTER GOLD BELT MINING COMPANY CAPITALIZATION $100,000 F. C. HHODIK, M. K. MUZZY, -t'.O. IIPOKNIIM, C. II. CHANCK, O. II. l'KNNKK, President Vice ('resident Sec. and Treas Attorney Engineer OPEItTU MIKES III THE GREENHORN AND SUMPTER DISTRICTS Sumptir, Origin