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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1904)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, August $ 1. ifrM ' The Sumpter Miner I'UHUSHCD BVBRV WBDNBSDAY BY J. W. CONNHLLA T. n, ('.WYNNE. - - EDITOR Entered at the pottofllce In Sumpter, Oregon, for Uansmlnlou thruugh the malls at second clats matter. SUHSCHIPTION RATBS One Year S.oo a Month -J ALWAYS IN ADVANCB. A oouplo of EngllHh miuiug nion ro reported to havo Invented 11 tolephouiu arrangement for tho locution of rnltJOH. A tttnt whh made roRontly tit ConiHtnn, thu copper miniiH urliiiiiHlly worked by thu JtomiiiJH, tho lodtt of whioh whh loHt ovor forty yoarH ago. Tho in volition Hhowml to hii itioh whoro tho lode whh, iih wiih proved by tho application of dyniiiiiito, k it Ih rilatnd. A hoium what vaugo description of tho InHtru itiont HHyn: "111 prillOipIt IIH ill lOHtlltH, tiio invention ' Ih moHt Himplo, though many electrical dilllcultioH line to hit overcome in perfecting it. A turnout of electricity convoying a itttrittH of titpn or tlokH llko mi ordiiuiry Meruit menage Ih put into itho earth hy iiioiiiih of special IraiiH ituittorH, Thin current makes itH way tluough tho omtli ovor it larger or Htiiallor area, ynrdH or mi Ion, iih tho opnrator may oIiooho lint to what depth noiio can Hay from ono dootrodo to another. Thon, u It h a 'telephone receiver ami a atttul npiko, two opiiratorH walk ovor tho charged hiiciih, anil, allotting tho Hpiko into i hi; earth any whom, pick tip tho our rout, and tho inyHtorioiiH ticking tollh whnro it Ih hidtlon in tho tiarlli iih plainly hh though ono hiiw with an X-ray oyo. " Tho oommltttoo on roHolutioiiH at 1ho mining oongroHH in Portland Iiiih favorably reported tho RIohardH reset Int ion urging oongroHH to oroato n government department of mines and mining with a cabinet ollloor at Uh ilioad, HityH tho KpokoHinan-Review. Tho idoii Iiiih hnon gououorally ap proved hy mining mon, anil, iih it will prohtilily ho Niloptod hy tho full onugroHR, it will uniintHtionalily havo hitluouco with tho law makers, who loiiK ngn hail thiH linporlant mattor tirnught to thoir notice. Tho mining IndiiHtry Ih so widely tmtattoiod, and pooplo of ho many ililtcrout hoiMIoiih ol ilio country art idoutillod with it, that it in quite iih looi vlug of fodoral encouragement uh miiiiy other forms of industrial activity to which tho government Iiiih given IIh attention. It Ih not a ftuinlloti of tho government to tl ih over or oporato m I mm; neither Ih it tin province of tho uovornmont to go into lariniiig. Hut tho Interest of tho iigticiilturiillHtH havo hnon doomed HiiftlclmiUy importunt to occupy tho Httcntio 1 of h special department, itnd why Hhoiiltl mining not tio do Korviug of equal recognition? It would ho no novol Idea. Oov etrnioontH, undor whoso jurisdiction largo mining operations havo boon developed, hnvo hood tit to establish (lopurtmontH of iiiinon that havo worked immousn benefits to tho in dustry. Hy guolo ;IimiI luvestma tioiih, hy dlHtri tuition selenitic Infer iniitlon, hy promotion of oxplnra tiou, hy judloioiiH oontrol of minimi corporulioiiH and adtHtiato protection nf tho individual iniuor and proa i)octor, governmental mining do inirtmonts havo dono muoh to opon new minoral unctions and doyolop the Industry; an If tbe creation of such departments have been pro ductive of ftood results eleewhere, a Hlmilar innovation In this country ought to he advuutageoup. ' Ah Preflideut RicbardB aid iu hie addroHH, tho domand la not that tbe government aaHiime a paternal or patronizing attitude toward tho mining industry, or that it make mining mon a pronent, but rather that It co-oporato with tboao now In tho IndtiHtry to make it largor, better and moro UHoful. Tho total production of crude potroloum from 18f) to 1!02 forty threo yoarH hiiH been no Iohs than l,10r,U8(),7'27 biirrelH. Of this out put, PoniiHylviiuia and Now Vork uoutributud nil 'I por cunt; Ohio, 21. U per cent; Went Virginia, 11.11 por cout; Indliiiin, :).!) per cent; California, : (5 por cent; Texan, 2.1 por cunt, leaving ! por cont to ho Hiippliud by Kiiuhiih, Colorado, LouIh iaiia, JllinoiH, MlHHonri, Indian Turrltory, Wyoming, Michigan and Oklahoma. To got a mining claim in Mexico Ih tho oiiHii'Ht thing in the world; all you havo to tin Ih to (lud Home Htonu, tro'i, or other mark, thon draw an Imaginary lino round iih much of a tract iih yon want and thon mako your duuoiiucomout. TIiIh cohIh you i?:i2.r0 A Hiirvuyur will thon hu Hout out and moariuru oil' iih many roiln iih you want Ho will take about 8100 for Ii.Ih hoivIuoh. Tho plat that ho proparoH now goon to thu capital and iu duocourHO of time you will ho iiHki'd to pay tax equal to about $10 for a parcel of laud tho hIzo or a city block. Thin tax munt bo paid annually, and iih lung iih you do thiH you will ho cotiHidorod thu owner of that claim. S. GLEN ANDRUS ON MINING IN OREGON S. (Jlon AndrowH, who wiih iu Sumpter Hoiiin weokH ninco, in com pany with It. M. Hall, tho publicity man of tho (). K. A- N,, Ih writing a HurioH of iutorcHting iirticlon on Oro gou fur tho Chicago Itccoid-llorald, of which paper ho Ih rallioad editor In tho Ihhuo of Augunt 20, hu tl 1 Ih a column on tin editorial page with a Htory about O'ogon miuuH, from whioh the following in teken: Many people In the Pacific North went huliovo that mining Ih (1oh timid to become tho paramount In diiHtry of Oregon. .1. II. Kink, mm oralogiHt of tho Htato coihiiiIhhIoii, Ih among thnfo who mako thin prophecy. Mr. Kink goen further, for after prospecting lor many yearn, after exporting huudrwda of prop ortieH and after a Hyritematic ntudy of tho mineralogy of tho NorthwuHt, ho declareH that thu picturesque Hlue mouutaiuH of uiiHturu Oregon contain tho richent gold deponltB iu thu world. 1 was not at greatly nurprlHod at tho Htatumunt after a v I h 1 1 to thu gold HnldH and after weeing iu one initio oro In the vein which contains a for ttinu In every ton. Thin mine, whioh wiih down to thu 1,200-foot luvol, Ih in a ntrlp of land 000 feet widu and thieu mlloH long, which could not tie bought for 2, 0000, 000 ciihIi. In tho light of thu fact it hcuiuh ntraugu tliHt thu gold tlvlda of Oregon havo not been overrun with a horle of proHpeotorn, whioh uvoutually thoy cannot onoupo. U Ih to bu acoounUul for, I beilieve, by tbe fact that tbe majority of tbe great mines in Ore gon are owned by close corporations, which go to extremes to prevent re liable information reaching tbe pub lic regaiding tbe properties tbey con trol. Then, too, the rush to tbe Klondike and tbe Cripple Creek reigon, with its $12,000,000 annual output, baa diverted attention from development in tbe Oregon field, which has beeu marvelous, both for Hh extent and tbe quiet manner in which it haa been accomplished. Ilich "(hide" are uow being made iu the various gold-bearing districts of the stato with a regularity which iu hound to hooii attract genoral at tention. While 1 was iu Sumpter the rumor wau confirmed of a dis covery iu tho Cornucopia district which assayed eighty ounces of gold to tho tun, aud mauy such "finds" are being made iu districts formerly famoiiH for placer milling, but whioh wuru supposed to havo beeu pros pered out. About the best mining properties in Oregon it Ih almost im poHHihlu to learn exact truths, while about Hioho which are being exploited it Ih difficult to keep from learning too much. Striku an aver age between tho two, tho bullH and iioarH in gold mining, ho iu hjilmik, and thu truth will not be so far dlHtaut. Tho gold output credited to Oregon by tho Unitud SlatoH gov ormont in but 81,800,000, whoreiiH tho truth Ih that tho Htato probably porducoH no Iohh than 80,000,000 annually, and poHHibly more. Thu diHcrepaucy between thu government llguruH ami tho faotn Ih partially ac counted for by thu eifurtu of closu corporations to prevent a general knowledge cf thu facts and by thu fact that a very large proportion of tho oouountratcH Ih treated in Hineltern of other statuH, and is credited to hiicIi status There arc undoubtedly three qr four iniiieH iu thu Crauker Crouk basin iilouo which prod uoo iih much gold iih tho govern ment given Oregon credit for. Fully three-quarters of tho Oregon gold output cmncH from thu oiiHturu turrltory, which coutaiiiH the Cracker Creek dint riot, Cornucopia, Oranito, Mormon IihhIii, ami other districts, while iu tho wont aud midlu wuHt thu Hohuminn ami tiraut'H I'iihh diHttictH arc becoming wull known. For moro than a half century practically all of thuHu districtH were famoiiH as plauur pioduqorH, tho total placer put put hIiico the early '00'h aggregating fully 8120,000,000. Tho placur dayn aru practically ovor and havri boon Hiiperseded by a development iu quartz mining that HurpiiHflUH any thing hitherto known, according to CommiHHiouer Fiek. Despite tho many camps, hn'ovrr. quartz mining Ih in its iufaiic. n. Oujoii, and there aru hundreds ut tin i.oiids of acron which huvu never felt the blow of a pick nor even thu tread of a white man. An interesting fact in connection with mining in Oregon is tho ex Intoncu of what might be called the mining rancher. Much of the oHHtorn disrtict is settled with theto mon, who picked their locations with a view to timber and wator supplies aud to banks of gold beariug gravel. Their miuiug operations begin in March, when the water caused by tho molting snow begins to run and they kuop at it night and day for two or three months, often clean ing up from 80,000 to f 10,000 from tho bedrock aud sluices. Tho re mainder of the year is spent iu gardening aud ranching, and iu this mautrer many of those miuiug ranchers have laid up in tho batiks from 820,000 to 800,000. The story of mining in Oregon la fraught with romance and interest, but it is a story which has yet to be told. OFFICIAL RECORDS. The following instruments ere filed at the court house in Baker City for record yesterday : REAL ESTATE TRANPFER8. DKED. August 18 Ed B. Penn and wife to Hewitt Laud company, S. E. M S. E. U Sec. GT 0 R. 37 E.; II. AuguBt 8 Carrie A. Sturgill and htiHband to M. L. Swift, lot 2 block A Hourtiei 82000,. Agnust lllU. S. Durgau and wife to t3uy L. Lindsay, i lots 1, 2 and ;i, 9 10 and 12 block 1 all lot Hi block 4 lots 11 and 12 block 2, Sumpter Heights and 1-3 interest in 100 acres in Sec. 17 T. 10 R. 37 E. ; 81,(500. April 11 Sam K. Senor to N. J. Hewitt, 208 feet square in Sec. 0 T. 0 R. 40 E. : 8500. August 15 M. H. Wakemau and wlfo to I. H. Sturges, lots 22 aud 23 block 18 iu Stewart's addition to linker City; 825. jly n Reculvur to Harry K. Hunkor, . W. ':, S. E. )i Sec. 20 T !) R. 37. E; 8100. AiiL'iiHt 1 II. K. liui'l'er, M. II. Allen, S. W. H 8. K. H Sec. 20 T. !) R. 37 E. ; 8300. Aug. 27 Martin Wilson to Oscar Holey, small tiact in South Raker; 8100 March !' R. L. Ferguson to I'rauk Forguon, lot 10 block A litiuruo; 8150. August 22 C. A. Locke to Shork Oraham oompntiy, lot 2 block (5 Huntington; 81. August 23 Juo. Rouso, tit al, to Sadie A. Ames, lotB 11, 12 and 13 block 17 Pacific addition to Haker City; 8200. August 27 Alpha Roberts and huHband to .Iiih. Akers and wife, lot 8 block 2(5 MoCrary's addition to Raker City; 8800. August 29 Riolianl Flanuety by shorlir, to Titos, tlorman, lot 2 block A Howden addition to Raker City; 8380. August 1(5 Jas. E. Ooddnrd and wlfo to Loo E. Shurtlilf, 11x2(54 foot iu South Haker; 8300. August 22 Ira R. Sturgos au3 wife to L. J. Ilaukins, lot 40 block 0 Stowart'H 2ud addition to Raker City; 825. ' July 7 10. II. Mastorsou and wife to Uoo. - W. Evans; '16t 4 .block 4 Richland; 8250. M IN INC MATTER. dkkdh: July 12 Juo. Adams to Oregon Smelting Jfc Refining company, Coui stock (uartz claim; 8400. August 22 Frank Pity to W. T. Phy., 1-3 interest in Tamarack group quaartz claims; 81. August 23 W. T. Miles to A. A. Hibs, Roosevelt quartz claim; 8225. August 1(5 ,1. Tbompsou, et al, to N. T. Hall, ,4J. Tbompsou No 1., 2, 3, aud 4 Paddy creek" quartz olairus 81. July 18 Wm. II. Curruthors tu Oregon (.Jrant Ciold Miuing oompany, Viola and Nellie M placer claims; 81. Juue 30 A. A. Hibbs to J. O. Ilibbs, trusteafa, Carpenter Hill group quartz claims; 81. July 8 J. Ci. Hibbs, trustee, to Whipple Ottlcb Miniug & Milling oompany, samo as first; 81. Juue 20 Jno. L. Rand to J. H. Clark, Oro Fiuo No. 1 aud 3 Min ing claims; 81. Nov. 1, '02 R. Lv Harris to J. H. Clark, lufidol aud Forget-me not quartz claims; II.-