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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1904)
hnwaseranwEL"- $ ' mmm i'kiunK l VOL. VI. SUMPTER, OREGON, OCTOBER 26, 1904 NO. io SUMPTER SMELTER'S NEW ORE CONTRACTS The United Elkhorn. Manager Fred D. Fuller, of the Sumpter smelter, is home from Baker City, where last Saturday be closed a contract with the United Elkboru mines, eight miles from Sumpter, for the entire output of that prop erty for two years. The Elkoru, siuco its recent rehabilitation by J. P. Hayes, of Pittsburg, has beou oue of the heaviest shippers to tho local smelter. The sorted ore and oou oontrates markotod have been of ex ceptionally high grade, aud of a character required by the smelter. The output of the Elkhorn is to be immediately increased, a new cou centratlng plant having arrived. The electric machinery for operating the eutiro mine has beou shipoud from Now Vork and is duo to arrive this wouk. Tho shipment consists of two transformers of lfiO horso power each, one iifty horse power motor, a twouty-borso powor motor aud a flfty-horo powor eloatrio hoist. An addition to tho five Wiflley concen trators iu the shapo of a now tablo has boon made, aud one more Bryan mill has boon addod to the two already iu uso, giving a treating capacity of 110 tous por day. Threo eight-hour shifts are driving a 0000 foot crosscut tuuuol to tap the maiu Baisley-Elkhoru vein at a depth of 1,500 feet, aud to open other known veins at still greater depth. The Eureka and Excelsior. The Oregon Smelting and Refining company, which is the corporate name of the Sumpter smelter, has entered into a aoutraot with the E. and E. mine to buy all of its con centrates aud shipping ore. The smelter has boon treating its output for 30tno timo past, but not uudor contract. The instrument was slgued yesterday. This is the third important con tract which (Jeueral Manager Fuller bus succeeded in closing within a week; the two others already re ported In these columns being the Badger, in the Susanville district, and the other the United Elkhorn, iu the district beariug its ntme, The securing of tbe Badger output li pregni'nt with Itnpbrtant'iigolfloanoe, inasmuch as the property wis bought by those who control tbe Taooma smelter, more for the purpose of se curing tbe ore for that plant, 'ban for the profits In opeating tbe mine. It means that tbe smelter her la a recgonlzed success, both from a sclent i do and financial point, under its present able management; that it occupies a commanding position so far ai the gold fields of eastern Oregon is coucerued, that this position is conceded by possible competitor aud that a friendly agreement has been reached, which iusures tbe future of tbe institution from auuoyiug complications. The fact that the E. aud E. management has seen fit to enter into this coutrnot is of equal beuoflolal importance For a year or more pant it has boon known that tho mother lodo mines wore not saving a satisfactory por cent of their valuos. As groator depth has boeu reached, more difilcult lias bocome tbe treatment problem. Cyauide has boon tried, but it is understood that that process has also failed to get all thore was coming. Tbe Golconda and North Pole have for a long while past banked its tailings, waiting for some plan by which the gold therein oould be extracted. Tbe smelter here solves the problem. Men learned in ore treatment now agree, practically unauiomuBy, that coarse concentration aud smelting must be adopted, in order to get tbe best results. By the adoption of this method, tbe bullion output li going to be largely Increased and tbe saving In the way of costly experi ments in reduction plant construc tion will amount to an euormous sum. Again, the securing of Cracker Greek ores insures a continuous aud ample supply for tbo smelter to ruu at its full capacity, aud together with ores secured from other dis tricts, will at an early day necssitate tbe enlargement of is capaoiy. A new era in eastern Oregon mining has been inaugurated. The Badger at Susanville. Hereafter all tbe rich ore and concentrates shipped from tbe Badger mine, at Susauvllle, will be treated by tbe Sumpter smelter. A oontraol to that effect was signed this week by General Manager Fred D. Fuller, of tbe itnelter, and Gen eral Manager 'Fred W. Bradley, of tbe Badger. Tbe latter gentlemau was in Baker City this week and after a conference with Mr. Fuller closed a ooutraot to deliver the Badger'a yield to tbe local plant hereafter Instead of shippiug Tacomu. Tho Badgor mine was taken ovor by Fred W. Bradley about two years ago, whllo actiug bh general manager of the Bunker Hill aud Sullivan mineB iu the Ooour d'Aloues, which compauy practically controls tho Taooma smeltor. Tho smelter end of tho compauy annouuood to Mr Bradley a dosiro for heavier ship ments of high grade gold ore, iu order that its matte might bo brought to a higbor grade, Htul to work agaitiHt tho si Ivor-lead oroH from Coeur d'Alenos. Bradley lookod ovor tlio Northwostoru mining Hold fur a hlh grado gold property, capable of yleldiug oro of tho character re quired. His choice filially sottlod upon tho Badgor mine at. SuHauvillo, then controlod by Colonel Sol by, tho California smoltor man, to wIiom plaut heavy HhlpmontH of crude Badger oro had boeu made. Uudor Bradley's management tho Badgor was developed on a big soalo, a con centrating plaut whs orooted, and shipments were made to Tacoma via Peudleton, entailing a wagou haul of over 100 miles. Lately the mines; output has been sout to the Sound via Tipton aud Sumpter. Iloreaffer this valuable traffic will stop at Sumpter. Manager Fuller is to bo con gratulated upon socuriug this prl.o in tho Oregon ore field. ED HAUSER HAS STRUCK II RICH MINING NOTES. Ore is baiug oxtractod aud stored at tho Adeleue, on Bock Creek, uutll a shipment is made up for the Sumpter smelter. Prosnectiuu for nay uravol on Cauyon creek, below John Day, is still being carried on with a diamoud drill by the Empire Dredging com pany. A. A. Deuny says that if that road la built from tbe Overland to the Constellation, it will ruu within 100 feet of a property which he owns, from which he can begin shippiug ore at once. L. G. Lilly returned last oveuiog from tbe Baby MoKee. He saya that in tbe crosscut uow being driven for tbe big vein, tbe granite aountry rock is heavily mineralized, chalky seams are belug eucouutered and he, there fore, hopes to encounter the ledge ai no great distance. The Baby Mo Kee will probably ship to the smelter here before the coming winter is over. fl. 11. Ames, one of the principal owners of tbe Morning Mine, in tbe Greenhorns, is in Sumpter today. The Moruiug recently passed through a period of costly litigation, which was only settled through the Klllen. Waruer, Stewart compauy, arranging to finance tbe new compauy. Eastern advices from the representatives of that company are to tbe effect that suoesft is assured. E. E. llausor aud OhurltH T. Kaht, tbo assay or, wont up to tho Astoria mine on Little Cracker creek, this morning. Jimmy tho barkoep main tains that llausor was called to comb the whiskers on tbo faco of the tunnel. Jim Duckworth knows differently. Jim visited the Astoria last wook and brought down a speci men of froo gold oro, found beneath tho face of tho Astoria crosscut. When llausor Haw it he started up tho canyon on tho dead run. It whs a pronounced case of gold fever. Ho was overtakon by coimideratn friends in au automobile, uud told that tho tunnel could'nt escape. Thus calmed down, Hatibor returned aud Invited tho eutire population to havo a drink. Early this morning he hit the trail for tho hills. As ho crossed the olty limits he confided to a Miner re porter that". Jim Duckworth is either my host friend or tho biggest liar iu Oregon." "llausor has something mighty good up there on Little CrHokor raid tlitn Duckworth to the Miner mau thla afternoon. "A crew of men uudor A I WoIh Iiiih been cross cutting for (ho ledge for (he past mouth. Last Saturday they ran alongside what 1 believe to be tho hanging wall. A black coating covers the quartz a sort of serpen Hue--exactly similar to the indica tions met with when AI Gelser opened tbo big pay shoot In the Bonanza mine seven years ago. 1 picked up a sample from beneath the Astoria crosscuts' faoe, aud here it is." . Mr. Duckworth exhibited a sample of quartz about as big as Marble. It was shot full of gold, "1 don't kuow how much more of this stuff there Is iu the Astoria," explained Duckworth, "1st It wouldn't take much to make It a mine." Wants to See Buckeye Brooks. A Milwaukee, Wisconsin, special of Octobor 21, says: "Mrs. Louise Koester, of Baker City, in in Mil waukee to get a look at the books of the Buckeye Mining company, in which she says she omiih 'i04,r7(! shares of par value of 1 1. J'nday she obtained a writ of mandamus against O. E. Kuebu, president; B. Krohu, secretary; Arthur Luebke, treasurer, aud William Kienkhefer, director, ordering them to bring the books into court without changing their contents. All the mining company officials are promiueut business men. ii "i i. .... V