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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1904)
,--- Wednesday, July 6, 1904 THE SUMPTER MINER v jm M " FOUR FEET OF SHIPPING ORE IN THE OVERLAND Already Penetrated Forty Feet, With One Hundred of Backs and Gaining Depth Rapidly. Unit hot air about high grado ore makes mu sick. Thero ain't a initio in thu district and there never will bu." Since tho recent visit lioro of Ci. II. Wheeler, tho Now York flmiii cior,. tlio fact has boon geuornlly com nientoi oti that Mr. Whittlor's figure rorpesonting the capitalist boars a striking icsomhlaucu to that gentle man, though that was an accident. M. E. Uain canio in from tho Over land last evening. Ho had uot boon to the mine for four weeks aud was gratified to learn, iu measuring mi, that the mou had run 150 feot of tunnel during his ubsenco, at tho extremely low, record breaking oost of only four dollars a foot. Ho says, too, that considerable of this work was douo iu hard rock. This, however, is not what has painted bis futruo tho roseato buy which his face aud domoanor reflects. It is that iu tunel No. 1 ho has found tho pay shoot, four foot of high grade shipping oro, with 100 foot of backs, that has every appearance of wideuing with depth. This shoot is arloady penetrated forty feet. There is now on tho dump 100 tons of this ore, which ho is having sacked for immediate shipment to the smolter here. A litlto calculation rovealB tho fact that in this ore body,so far as opened up at present, there Is approximately 1,000 tons. That, iu itsolf, will buy powder and grub for Momo months to come. Ouo day next week ho will send out another car aud 1100 more feot of track, to bo used as tho tuuuols ox tend in length. Ho has men at work on throe drifts. BAD MEN IN THE GOOD OLD TIMES If Colonel A. K. MoCluro really said that the eojial aud political ideals of the timo of Washington were such as as to reflect credit by contrast on tho social and political ideals of tho timo of Roosevelt, ho deserves tho unmeasrued condemna tion of tho idealists, whoso method of saving the world is to cause it to fall on its face before stuffed idols. lint listen to a few words of which the idols themselves spoke be fore they were stulfed. After tho battle of Monitor Hill Washington said in a letter: "The Massachusetts oliicors, generally speaking, are the most indifferent kind of people I ever saw. 1 havo already broke ouo colonel aud live captains for cowardice and for draw ing more pay aud provisions than they had men iu their company." Later on in the war Washington continually speaks of the "dirty n er-'om-ry spirit" of bid tol Mors ai d of their disinclination to face bul lets. During the progress of tho lighting around New York ho was obliged, as his companion, Touch Tilghuian, reported, to "lay his cane over many of tho ollloois who showed their men tho example of running." It was during this samo lighting that, according to the memoirs of Cionoral Heath, "Wash ington threw his hat on tho ground and oxelaimed: "Aro thoso tho men with which I am to dofend Amorlca?" Turning from physical to moral courage, tho student of tho times of Washington tiuds llttlo improve ment. Heury Laureus, president of congress, said: "Where is tho vir tue, where is patriotism uow when members of cougress artfully start a movement, succeed, aud then avail themselves of the secrets of tho house aud commence monopolizing aud accumulate the publlo debt for their private emoluments?" John Adams said: "The spirit of veuality is the most alarming enemy America has to oppose. Tliis dominant avarice will ruin America if she la ever ruined." Evon Washington, sober and re strained talker as ho was, admitted that "speculation, peculation aud an insatiable thirst for riches seem to havo got tho bettor of every order of man." Ho therefore most cynically concluded that "after tho first emo tions aro over, to expect among such people as compose tho bulk of an army ttiat. they are iniiuenced by any other principles than I bono of in terest, is to look for what never did aud, I fear, never will happen." Under snob circumstances, witli his oliicors running away, with his privates desert lug almost iu regi ments, with provision inercliaiitH ex ploiting the aimy, aud with congress men assisting tho provision mer chants, it is no wonder that Washington did not regard his times as they aro regarded now by the retrospective enthusiasts who cannot see through the golden mists of Monmouth aud Vnrktowu. The men of tho revolutionary period iu America were, on the whole, inferior to the men of no other period in the history of the world. Vet many of them were cowards and many of them wore thieves. Inci dentally, they produced the arch trairtor, Heuedict Arnold, and the meli-rogue, Aaron Jlurr. They also produced men the sublimity of whose character stupelies praise. The conclusion to which almost all his torians havo been led is unwreckable. The average man of a hundred years ago was just about what the avonie man of today is, and there is no reason to suppose that the America of 1001 could uot rise as high iu a supremo eirort as tho America of 1775. Chieeuo J'rlhuuo. SEVEN DEVILS DISTRICT IS EXPERIENCING MOM A correspondent writes from Woiser: Seven Devils copper mining dis trict is enjoying as a genuine boom. Tho Ladds Metal company, of Port, laud, lias a crow of men grading for the smelter in the town of Laii'.lorc. A contract has been let by this com pany for :UU),000 feet of lumber and for tho cutting of 1100 cords of wood. Thomas Jones, owner of tho Landoro townsite, has given tho company concessions iu tho way of live acors of laud, 5,000 cords of wood, aud a water right. Tho smelter is centrally located in rela tion to tho mines. Tho weighing platforms an 1 receiving bins will bo constructed at once, so that tho purchase of ore may bo begun. It is thought that they will bo able to buy ore by tho Hurt of August. In the meantime, construction on tho smelter proper will be rushed. They will buy all ores olfered iu lots of o00 pounds and up. Tho Tort land Trading company, which put iu a large stock of goods .lit Homestead last, fall, is uow uinv j lug to liiiudore. Ilusiuess of all kinds is reviving in that. camp. J The country is thoroughly open, j labor is iu demand, and miners, carpenters, etc., can llud plenty of work. IF WILL HE 10 YOUR INTEREST If you contemplate visiting the St. Louis exposition, to secure reliable information as to railroad service, the lowest rates aud tho best routes. Also as to local conditions In St. Louis; hotels, etc., etc. If you will write tho undorslgno 1, stating what information you desire, tho same will be promptly furnished. If wo do not havo it on hand, will secure it for you if possible, and without any expense to you. Address) I). 11. TKUMHULL, Commercil Agent 142 Third street, Portland, Oregon. E. L. Kouuon, Whitney, Oregon, lumber, sash, doors, shingles, build lour material, mining Umbers. (M4T OP SUMPTER ILJ Capital Stock - $25,000 Surplus, $1000 OFFICERS J.W. SCRIBER . . Prcaidant ED. W. MUELLER, - Vlo-Pr.ild.nt R. H. MILLER - - - Cashlar Safety Deposit Vaults Gold Dust Bought Does a General Ranking and txchange Business Whittier's "Knocker." A. I). Whittier has added another figure to his famous study iu clay, representing the capitalist, the promoter and the prospector. The addition is the face of a "knocker," eour, malignant and exultant, as he tells the capitalist, referring to the claims made by the prometer: "All 4 AT a stock holders meeting held recently at the l.ucy Mine near (ireon horn, Oregon, owned by the (ireeiihoru (iold .Mines and Develop ineiit Co., the "Ulcers and directors decided to sell One Hundred Thousand shares of Trcasurv stock at LTm per hharo, par value $1.00, for the purpose of further development, to erect an electric power plant aud to purchase necessary machinery, etc., to put the Lucy Mine on producing basis. We own seven claims, have plenty of timber and water. Our tunnel is now iu over Four Hundred and Fifty feet, have cut t Into ledges which asay from $lf.00 to $101.00 per ton. We arc now driving into the O. K. ledge, whose surface showings show that it is the richest ledge .if the property. Our property is fully equipped with hunk and boarding house, nlacksinith shop, stable, store house and tunnel bouse, We have worked two .shifts steady for the past (tight months and our ore dump has several thousands of dollars of ore ready for treatment. The piopcrly is well equipped and the l.ucy Mine has the ore, The property will soon bo on a paying basis and will Maud the closest investigation. Stock can bo bought in monthly installments if desiied. $L'.r 00 will buy 100 shares; $L'.r0.00 will buy 1000, etc. Anvone who will invent $1000 or more we will furnish free transportation anil all expenses to visit the property and In spect it. : : :- : : (J. A. I'orgland, Lumber Dealer, Milwaukee, Wis., President. Sam It. Stmt, l.ucy Mine, (irecnliorn, Ore., Vice President. M. I'. Keogli. Merchant, Milwaukee, Wis,, Treasurer, Morris Sullivan, l.ucy Mine, (ireeiihoru, Ore,, Asst. Secretary. Kd. Sullivan, l.ucy Mine, (ireeiihoru, Ore., Manager, F. U. Morris, (irain Dealer, Milwaukee, Wis,, Director. UlniH. Seholl, liroker, Milwaukee, Wis., Secretary. Make all remittances to ('has. Scl oil, Secretary, Milwaukee, Wis., and send for further information to The Greenhorn Gold Mines & : Development Co. : 307 Matthews Bldg. Milwaukee, Wis. J tf