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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1905)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, January 2j, 1905 The Sumpter Miner PUHLISHRf) BVEUV WEDNESDAY BY J. W. CONNELI.A Lntered at (he postofllce In Sumpter, Oregon, for rnmliOon through the malls at second class iTiiiitrr SUIISCUII'TION RATES Onr Year , $.u Six Months .. '35 ALWAYS IN ADVANCB. A Witll strmit oporathf says tlmt tho trouble bbtwoen Hill aud Ilarrl 111 lit), growing out of thu Northern merger case, whloh 'Iihh finally been patched up, wiih "merely a niHtlor of dollars Htitl cents. " Did HiiyouM ever huar of a row between the tnoticy magnates that waH uot a "mere matter of dollars and cents;" a ohho of tho parly of thn (hat part on doavnriug to give thu party of the second part thu dotihlu cross, and vice versa Y Thu Chiuo-Japaucso Uaetto pub- lishos tho report of a most Important and significant speech by Count Okuuia, thu former foreign inlulstur of Japan, lieforu thu Agricultural in stitute at Toklo. In his romurks, thu count Haiti: "Japan must follow thu example of Amoricu, wIiohu hhoou (luiii'y dates from thu promulgation of thu Mourou doctrine. If wu win in the war, Japan should insist that thoHu foruiguura now In uuHtorn Asia niust follow Japan's will, whl lo no olher powers should be puriultted to obtain any Emt Asian pohhcssIoiih. Japan Hhould assuniu hurself (o be thu leader In China, Coroa and Siberia." It Iihh been known forHotnu mouths that there has been a heavy shortage of bar sllvur for the purposo of coin ing subsidiary silver coIiih, Tliuru is an urgent domain! for many millions of dollars' worth of small sllvur coins. In older to meet this no inand, thu government uiiiHt either re -co In some of thu large stock of silver dollars on hand or comu into the market for the puiposu of pur chasing millions of ouiicuh of silver bullion. A bill Is now pending In oongtoss which has for Us object the re-ooln-ing of sllvur dollars on hand. Tho bill will, in all probability, go through, hh it is practically a govern ment meatiuiu. If tho people under stood thu situation and were not heartily tired of thu discussion of the money question, wu buliuvu thuy would make such a protest that the bill would be defeated. If it goes through, tin government will actually uot purchaso silver in the open market, but will practically de stroy the backing of the silver bills now current, and couveit dollars Into halves, quartets and dimes, Mining itepnrtor. A biaul now opponent of railroad rates legislation has just put itself in evidence the Association for Mainitaiuiug the Klghts of Property. The Interests that compose thu asao oiatiou, chiefly the bondholders ami stockholders of railroad companies, have eluuys, of couisu, regarded with disfavor any movement toward gov ernment control or regulation of rail ruad luminous; but this is apparently their Hint organized vlfort In open bohtlllty to the Koosevelt programme. It Is significant as showing that they take the current aigtatiou of the question seriously and appreciate the Importance of getting their side of the caeo tiefore cougrctri In their own way. Their hired lobbyists at Wash ington have hung out the red light danger signal, in the shape of pre dictions of dire disaster to'the whole country, in case a rate regulation measure is passed. They say that in such event, depositors in savings bunks, that hold vast quantified of railroad stocks and bonds, will with draw their depositH, a general panic will annuo and all sorts of dreudful things will happen. It is really a matter of ""serious re grot that thu interests of tho mining industry of Oregou do not receive at loast respectful attention! from tho stale legislature; that the min ing dlntrictH are not represented in that body by mon who can com mand scriotiH consideration J for this Important subject of mining legislation. Senator Hand, of Hakor City, is a strong, influential mem ber of thu upper house; hut he la ovldently devoting all of his time and talents to playing tho gamo of stato politics, for polutH; with an eyo solely to his own future ad vancement, and takes no Interest in this matter. As to our Koprosontatlvo Smith, it is already apparent that somebody is "playing hoise," having fun with him. Thn bill he has intro duced is uot the one the mining men of this district, assisted by Attorney Chance, carefully drafted; but an un constitutional, ludicrously awkward and iiugramatical ineastiie that Is sure to meet with nothing but ridicule. A half dozen other hills pertaining to mining have b' on introduced, nono of them practical or desirable in any way; and unless Senator Hand gets in and drills, nothing of benefit will be accomplished at this uesslnu of thu legislature Tiie great aud growing importance of tho mineral products of this country keeps alive aud of increas ing popular Interest the qucstiot. of creating a regular government de partment of mining aud minerals, mtys thu New York Commercial. Tho mini ti! Intrpts of tho United Status ii 1 . 1 ...uiidoiiH volume, aud tb 1 tMii-'lvc iMtiiUcui on , along 1 in Cu!,,(iit tu. 1 11 1 1 monctiii i ii- IcmiModh Involved, have alu.j i...t..i.wo..l uot a fuw far sighted Americana in the necessity of ultimately safeguarding tho in dustry in soma manner, as a govern ment department now looks after tho country's argicultiiral interests. Our gold output In 1001 was valued, for instance, at IHI.fifil, IIOO a new high record by about 8f, 000,000 aud an Increase of more than 10.000,000 fiom the value of the lOO.'l yield. The value or thu silver mines yield was 8o!l,-(1011,000- -i slight falling off from that of li)0:i. The twentieth annual report ot the United States geological tuirvcy just made public, disclosos hat thu total value of our mineral production in 10011 was 81,410,721, f0i an Increase of ICO, 2 11, Kill from 1002. Iron and coal lead In value, as usual, thu value of the latter being tftO:),000,000, Hi) of the former, $:U 1,000,000. This gain of about ? lf.lt, 1)00,000 iu thu value of the entire mineral yield of 100!) is due to the large Inoroaio in uon metallic products, the metallic pro ducts showing a ducreaso from 0l2,2r8,fi8t in 1002 to 8024, !181, 800 iu llKKi, aud the nou-mutulllu products an increase from 8017,2f)l, lf.4 in 1002 to 8704,40:15,01 in Uioa again of 8177,lu2,407. These figures strain tho ordinary mau's comprehension uot a little. They are Instructive, however, as disclos ing somewhat thu baslB for a belief in the need of a department of min erals. CongreuB has been very, con servative in thiB matter of establish ing new goveument departments. For a long period there was no innova tion of this oharaoter, aud it required years of agitatinu andjaigumeut, sometimes in the lace of the fiercest opposition, to finally induce the'law makers to create the Department of Agriculture. For nearly two decades tho establishment of a department of commerce was an iHBtie, and whon the cougrods finally yielded to popu lar pressure tho new establishment was made largely a sort of clearing hotiBO to haudle the Btirplus business of some of the older departments aud even now there are some good citizens who profess not to recognize its "ralson d'eutre." Some special considerations, however, appear to favor this Bort of legislation for the mineral industry, aud there are in dications that it may become a live issuo in the uear future. OFFICIAL RECORDS. The following instrumoutb were filed at tho court houBe iu Baker City for rooord yesterday: KEAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. DKKDP. Lou L. and Anna 13. Swift to A. V. Swift, HIT) acres in S. 2, T. 0, K. 30 aud in S. 28, T. 8, K. 40; 6500. A. V. Swift and wifo and Anna B. Swift to Lou L. Swift, 245 acres iu S. 2, T. I), K. HO and S. 28. T. 8, R. 40; f00. A. V. Swift aud wifo aud Lou L. Swift to a mi a 11. Swift, :)20 arooH iu Sees. 7, and 21, T. ri, R. 40; 8500. U. S. to Erwiu I). Uatowood, E. X of S.W. &, S. 10, N. E. M of N. W. 4' and N. W. H N. E. XA. S. ,'18, T 10, R. 118. U. S. to Karl W. Scbroedur, N. E. H of S. W. 4, and S. of S. W. T. 4, S. :)2, T. 13, and lot I!, S. 5, 14, R. :J7. John Troy to Mary Troy, his wife, 2 acres iu Soas. 24 and 25, T. 10, R. 14, aud in Sec. HO, T. 10, R. 42; 81 David J. Stall to Stella C. Stall, . i0. )i of N.E. 4, S. II, T. 8, R. 4J; 8100. Ira II. Hatfield to Ralph O. Ropor, W. of S. E. 4 aud E. ,Hi of S. W. .'4, 8, 18, T. 11, R. .'10; 11,000. Agues K. Douglass aud husbaud to Harlow J. Evans, 220 acres in S. 4, T. 0, R. :iU; 88,000. Juiih Jensen to S. Richardson, "Midnight," aud "Happy Jack" quart? mining claims aud a mill lite; 8100. J. II Sellers to Win. Wlegand aud 1. I. Wilson, stock aud fixtures in the "V. E. A." saloon, Hourue; 8:125. S. A. Sootlold to W. II, Drowloy aud W. S. Loveue, assigua mort gage give by N. E. luibaua aud wife; 8000. Caylord fc Huut to First National bank of Raker City, 1004 hay crop on Orange (Jaylord farm; 87,500. MIN1NU MATTER. DKKDS. Edwin Hutze, Sr, aud wife to Ed li.utz Jr. one-sixth interest iu Warm Springs Placers Nos. 1, 2 aud il, uud f quartz claims, viz: "Charlstou," "Kuobllill." "Shortstop," "Uiaok Eagle," "Dauntless, " 87. Albert Martin, executor Maliuda C5. 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