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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1904)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, July 13, 19U4 SUCCESS IN A SMALL WAY Ground Out the Price ofiJZ Z a Valuable Mine in a ; . . ."Coffee Mill." The Miner a day or two Hince pub liHhed 11 Hlory regarding the wile ot tin, jdiyw, wiiiiv ioclo , in " , ,f dozen years at least. Tho (.roonhnrns. Here areriome "IH- American exports of copper will lu tional fnnlH of Interest, from the CruilS0 l() ,rmj ,xtont. And that Portland TVIcgrai.,: r w, ,J(J ,, th,,1K fnr ,,u couiitry." Among notable lucent examples of . the Hpeedy mauiior in which judg I meuL and' luduHtry arc rewarded in. mining Ih that of tho Koyal White property, of (Irenuhoru cIIhI riot in eastern Oregon, which was Hold liiHt week for 8 in, 0 00 by Its owners. liiHt. about a year ago, according to tho Hlory related by a Portland mining mini who recently viHited the Hecliou, the mine wiih owned in part nei-Hhip by three men. (limit Thum bing, who ruiiH a hotel at Oranilo, owned a half fnton'sl, and the other half wiih held eipially by tho two men who hvae jiihI Hold out. Thnrnhurg Ih a pretty good hotel man, but iIooh not. claim to be a groat miner, and when li Ih partners otl'ered 82.000 for bin iuteriiHt, to be paid within a year, ho accepted the oiler. Though wiih comparatively hiiiiiII el ore of worldly goods, the two miners had mihuuudod faith In the prospect. They worked early and Into , and tlnnlly Hiicceeded In in mIiiIIImm ii mill In ii HuliHlautlal I ok building coiiHlructed by their own labors. The mill wiih of three Unlit etampH, l!fi0 pouuiiH each, and drop plug ever ho Htendlly they only had a capacity for about two (oiih daily, it wiih referred to by Ichh patient and critical proHpcctotH and iiiIuimh iih a "oolfco mill." but they kept light on ctiiHhliig the ore and producing (old. In six monlliH the halt inter erit wiih paid for and held in fee Himple, and (he mill and operating oxpoiiHo iiIho oovontd by 1(h pioduct. The Hale wiih made to eiiHteru parties through the instrumentality or Mr. Kennel ly, of linker City, and the miut'iH ol (iieeiilioru have uu hounded faith In (he future of the mine thus developed. The two men! who found in the prospect Hie IiiihIh of a fortune ate couteul to icmiilu in the. district that gave them their i start and think Hint it Ih worth more j than the Mile price, but sold because i it una beyond their menus Io preperly: develop and equip the property. GOITER 0U1L00K GOOD I OR NEXT SIX YEARS An eastern paper published tho following interview with Senator Clark iHHt week : On the White Slur liner Teutonic, which arrived from Liverpool, was Senator W. A. Clark of Montana and New York, who Iimh been abroad opening tho KuiopeNii market for IiIh immenuo copper Interests in this country. Spenklng of his hucoouh Senator CUrk mild: "OermMiiy will tide grent quan ititM of American copper during the next tlvu or six your. She in already tiiki UK l"(! proportion of tho' Httift 1 1 arms being uh(I in tho far ti8t. Our copper Is being used in J this work. ".Soon Cermany will bo manu i fuel uriiiK equally li'Ko Prt of Hie (.Japanese Htiuill arms. Tho JiipH n bc ii iinciilliir kind of wotinon. and a 1111 hot- of now muchinr.H will io introduced before tho doimaus enn take an motive part In tho business. 4 "Hul tho machines'"' are." being built, and in a few inonlhs .Japanese, nriiiH will bo . turned. out .by J he,, tons ! of thousands in the Oorman gun 1 fact or I oh. "Tho outlook for copper la splon- I .11.1 II iwiKiiK linu I1111111 flnnr. . !! BBKH aro going to hum for tho next IJMIl JL l.t.UI t.l.O . . ...a CHICAGO MAN HERE TO INVESTIGATE ClnirlcH .1. and W. ,1. Wright, of today from lOrlokson, of Chicago, Patterson and Oeorgo linker Cily, returned lOlmer Thornburg's ! placers on the North Fork of ,lohu Day. There Ih a deal pending for I be acquisition of this ground. Mr. Krlekson icproricntH an aHHociation of Chicago people who are invest lug in mining and oil properties, and bis husiucHH 1 1 ere Ih to investigate this district. He Htates it Ih probable that IiIh people may take an interest, in the Thornburg placers, though he had nothing of a specific nature to give out. Mr. ICrlokson bus been in tho dls- ilct several wooIh, looking mound and ho sayH so tar ho Ih well pleased. Tho party returned to Maker on tho afternoon train. Badger Versus Stockton. Claiming an undivided one half interest in the Stockton Lode mining claim, in the 13 Ik Creek mining district of Crant county, tho Badger Cold Mining A- Milling company, of San KranciMU), Iiiih brought suit. against the Stockton Cold Copper Miuiiu! company, of Crant county, 'Oregon, to iccover ouohalt in terest. The Stockton Cold A Cop- per Mining company obtained a United States patent on the entire Claim, thus securing it entirely, and the suit just, brought, in tho United States courts, thepapers hoiiik tiled this moiuiug, is the roMilt of that patent being issuei The HadgerCold Mining A Milling company claims that it purchased an undivided one half interest In the claim from (ho owners of it be fore any property came Into posses sion of the defendant corproration. The value of this interest greatly ex ceeds 6 'J, 000, according to tho plain tltr. Telegram. Locates a Fraction. Cuy Pierson, of the Yankee (Jlrl, has located a fraction adjoining the Ouldcii Chariot, In Pear CJuloh, on the west. Tho fraction contains about live acres of grouud, which Mr. Pierson Ih positive has a contluuatlou ot tho tJoldeu Chariot ledge. He has prospected it aud tluda a teu foot outcrop which pans free, though uo assays have beeu made. ROBERTS ONI HE GOLD OUTPUT United States Will Be the Greatest Gold froduc ' v ing Country in World m n ' this Year.' Oeorgo 13. Koberts, director of tho United StateH mint at Washington, D. C was in Seattle, WuhhlttgtotU this week. Ho is on his 'way to Nome, where ho will spend several 'WoulfHin Jqok,iug over tho gold pro ducing probabilities of that section for tho proso'nt year. His 'depart ment is charged with furnishing tho, over out estimates of tho oiitput : B(.eoilfi 8:15.000.000, ntid last year of gold in tho United States, and ,,,,, 8(50.000.000. This yor wo while onjoying a vacation the dheotor exp,et ,0 j?ol,t, Atrlcn produco will combine business with pleasure iaiyouj gsOyOOO.OPO. , Ho sails north on tho Senator. i.T0 ,)t,8t og'uHiiito wo can make of It Is three years since Mr. Koberls th uoU , ,0 m),j,,mi tbo world has been in Seattle, and on this triph, ,,, vmcut calendar year is ho HiiyH that within tho near futuie I a.ino.OOO.OOO. which will bo a rooord- Ibis city will have a now government building, to bo need exclusively iisjlht 880,000,000 will come from tho an assay olllce. "I am on a vacation trip," said Mr. Huberts, when seen by our rep resentative at tlie Halnlor club, "but am oiug to Nome. While there 1 will inlesvtigato the gold output for tho present year, as such is part of tho work of my olllco. "1 stopped at Denver on the way out. Wo are just completing u new mine there. The building will be turned over to us in about two mouths, aud during the coming fiscal year wo will begin coining at that city. I proceeded to San Krancicsn from Denver aud examined tho mint thero, "There will be no other mints or assay olllce" opened by the govern ment In the United States soon. While there is a demand from many parts of the country, the department is vell supplied with locations aud the local beuellts, it does not believe, will warrant the expense. "The Seattle assay olllce is hand ling more gold than any other in the United States, with the single exeep lion of New York. We need a new assav building here, aud 1 have recommended an appropriation for it, but the government is engaged with a large Seattle building at. the present lime and we will probably have to wait a time before having our needs supplied. However, I do not believe it will be long before a new assay building, in keeping with the importance of the local olllce,' will be constructed in Seattle. " i he government has uo more silver bullion on hand to use in the coinage of silver dollars. That authorl'ed under the Sherman not has beeu exhausted, aud unless a new law Ih passed the coinage of silver will cease. We ate coining a great deal of gold. "For the tlscal year ending today our coinage will amount to $200, 000,000, which ia the largest in the history of the country and of the world. The reasou for this is that last, year wo wero eugaged iu coining IH, 000, 000 pesos for the Philippines aud we allowed our gold to accumu late. This yoar we have worked the stock olf. "All our Pblllppluo coiuage has beeu ullver aud copper. They will use our gold there where it Is neces sary, and their supply of United States money, under tho changed monetary system, will bo increased as the husiuess demands of the country require. "There is every reason to bolievo that tho coinage of the present year will bo equal to tbo average. The gold supply in the United States, and Id tho wholo world, for that matter, in iricreahing. Last year tho output' fu tho United States was somewhat curtailed by reason of tho labor troubles in Colorado. If thoso ure settled-Ibis -yerv.eAvlll get back to our normal producing conditions, and with this the gold output for 1004 in tho United States will prob ably bo the greatest in lt history. "Tbo same argument will apply to tho gold production of the world. Thero ore good' ronphus fbr(tbis 'state ment. The yortr before tho' South African war that country produced $100,000,000 gold. Tho year of tho War it dropped to almost nothing. 'Pit n flat tnitn fttllrittlftlr Mmtn tttfiu hot florjtooo.0()0 taken out. tho j.iic ill ai a tui luuutnuK iiiviu i'uo , )mii0l. nf this amount wo estimate United States, making us the greatest gold producing country in (ho world, for this yoar at least." Mining World. Leaves for Tonapah. O. O. Kincnid, former asslstaut manager of the Honanza was on tho train this aftoronon leaving lor Tonopab, whoro he is to assume tho management of tho Midnight Cold Minitig compauy's proporty. Tho miuo is controlled by rraatically tho same peoplo who owu the llonauza. Special Excursion to I he World's Fair. The Donvor in connection and & Rio (jrnnde, with the Missouri Pacillc, will run a sorios of Person ally Conducted tfxcursinuH to tho Wrold's Fair during Juno. These excursions will be run through to St. Louis without change of cars, making short stops at principal points en route. The lirst of these excursions will leave Portland June 7th, aud the second Juno 17th. The rate from Maker City will be 800 to St. Louis aud ret in n. Excursionists going via the Deuevr A: Kio Oriiudo have the privilege of returning via a different route. This is tho most pleasant way, as well as the most delightful route, to cross tho continent. The stops arranged give an opportunity of visiting the various points of in terest iu and about Salt Lake City, Denver aud Kansas City. If you wish to accompany one of these ex cursions writo at once to W. C. Mo Hrido 124 Third street, Portlaud, for sleeping car reservations. STURGILL'S ELITE CIGAR ..STORE.. The Best Cigars, all Brands of Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, Confections, Smokers Articles, Etc., Constantly on hmd.jjjjjtjjtj$ GRANITE STREET