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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1890)
FROM SPARTA. inn u n, lwmii m Kimn An Interesting Letter From This Promising Camp. 'Good Weather for Assessment Work An Immensely Rich Strike A new Incorporation, etc. Weather fine and times lively. Tho Oro Doll mine is showing large quantities of high grado ore. Bill Arblc'ri Golden Gate and Golden Rule, aro developing into regular gold bonanzas. Tho fine weather has enabled mine owners to do their annual assessment and many promising mines have been extensively developed. Al. Waldron. the contractor, exhi bited immensely rich free gold speci mens yesterday from the bottom of 'Winze No. .), now 51 feet deep. Clough and Eced are cutting around largo quantities of high grado ore in their Gray Eagle and Union mires, and will build a -10 ton plant in tho spring. nirco oi tne uest mines in camp owned by Jay Guy Lewis, the Silver Queen, Tom Paine and Frco Thinker will furbish ore enough for a ten stamp mill next summer. IThe Ollio Woodman mine owned by Cook and l ounger, at (io feet on the ledge, shows a vein of .$1G.S0 free mill ing oro and tne sulpiiurets yield over $20 in gold to the ton. Tho Gold Ridge, owned by Henderson and Rapelje of the Del Monte, still leads as the banner gold property, and at the 20Q foot incline level four feet of $80 free gold oro and a high grade sulphurct is found. Work on tne uoliy varuen mine continues night and day, and we learn from Siu-erintendent Hoffman that fifteen feet more tunnel work will take them to, rich and extensive oro bodies prospected by shaft yearsigo. Tho shrill sound of the wlnsllc on the Del Monte Hoisting Works rover- berates o'er hill and vale, and the camp seems to Jiavo taken on now life Everything is working s(mooth in and around tho mine, and high .grado oro in ouantiiv is beinc hoisted ,from the 150 foot level. Clough and Reed are cutting around largo blocks of high guide free milling ore in their 900 foot tunnel on the ...u iiuLiu bitinu qi mo season is on tho Indino Winze beinc sunk on the ledge from the lower tunnel works of the Ora Dell mine at a depth of On tnt fiM ;. rw juurc is v inciics ot ore averaging !20 in fine gold togothcr with broinido and native silver assay ing over $200 in silver to tho ton. This is the only promising silver mine in camp and is owned by Tom A. Hetheriiigton of St. Joseph,' Mo., and John ltapelje, of N. Y. An enterprise, known as the Con solidated Eagle creek mining company is attracting more attention abroad, than any mining venture now on the i uoards. Jay Guy Lewis and W. P. Arblo of Sparta and Judgo A. E. Par Kinson and Dr. W. II. Kimberlin cf Kansas City, Mo. are the incorporates. Tho company own two miles of the richest placer mines on the creek and by turning tho water throuuh a tun nel to be driven across horse shoe bend (near the upper end of their diggings) a distance of 450 feet, bed rock is reached at upper end of tunnel and at lower end of tunnel above high water mark. The water is received into a flume thus making these valuable dig gings available and the water conveyed ten miles down Eagle creek, croesed to tho Powder river slope through a GJ foot tunnel, reclaims 35,000 acres of the richest sage brush lauds inEait ern Oregon. The success of this en tjipriso is now assured. O. S. B. THE COVE. Items of Interest From Our Regular Cor respondent. Gray Eagle and Union mines, and it is the intention of these gentlemen to have oxnosed bv earlv snriui' several thousand tons of ore, when a 40 ton plant will be built to successfully treat .their ores. Development work on the Gold Hill mine owned bv Ranelie it Lewis, has opened up ono of the most promising ffrce gold properties in Eastern Oregon. At three diilureut opening wnero tic ledge has been cut, 14 inches of high grade oro has been found, with a steady increase in quality'and quantity. One year ago this mine sold for ton dollar.?. The "Wild Irishman," in Paddy's raradit-e, owned by C. D. Reed, is be ine developed bv several hundred feet 5 of tunm-ls and largo bodies of high 1 ......... ...1 ll'l.n 1UIUU LMV IUU jIUPUU. O-ilU ? twill IWalla Mining Company on Paddy's creek arc taking out high grade oro, lEomc of the neliest wortn ono cionar a pound is being sacked. This mine has mot only paid development work, but finonthlv dividends to its owners. On Eutt Eagle atFortMcG.ee, many pood mines havo been found, and frank MeGcc has already developed , group of mines that in the near lu- lur j w 11 cause a ripplo of surpriso iu f 1 it n il puning circles, .lonn cuiuvan, uio 'Sylvan" miner has done much good rork oa his valuable properties and ho Mint mino own.d by Cook and roungi r shows a ti tie fissure vein three ee, deep carrying 85.00 in frco gold. The Del Monto hooting machinery, rorks lko a charm and sinking on lie 1 d' at the rate of five feet a day iiitaiuous and larjc quantities of 3h o lou loot iove.1. i lie uoiu uiu fit', nut ly llindortoii and Itapoljo of to D 1 M.mto shown Uio larsofct and Mr. Guy Bridges has gone on a bus iness tour to Walla Walla, Pendleton and other points. The question in Cove now is: "Will Marion Carroll's son bo a democrat er a member of tho farmer's alliance. lion. Mel B, Campbell returned from Sehome Monday. He thinks that country has a great country before it. Mrs. George Stewart started for Ohio Monday. She will join her husband iu that state and their stay may be of indelinito length. Mrs. II. L. Dougherty started fo California last Sunday on s. visit relatives and friends. Sho expects be absent several weeks. Cove has been thoroughly swept by the winds tho last few days. Less zep l i . nyrsanu more moisture would 6eem advantageous ta short sighted mortals mo socia nianuiacturing company expects to erect a suitable building for their businesj at once. It will Uo 1 1 1 .1 (Ml t uouuieu anu nneu concern so as to .se cure an even temperature in winter and summer. Mr. Samuel Bloom risked Indian valley this week. He saye a new town is about to bo started at the Morelock bridge, which may rival Elgin before many months. Ono of its feeders will be the Cricket flat country. Several of the local hunters have inquest of elk and other large game, The chances of their bringing in some meat are good as a herd of elk Iibb been seen in that locality lately. It 13 reported hero today that the branch road from tho depot tc Union is an assured fact, work on the lino laving commenced in earnest. This is a very pleasant as well as an uncx pected surprise to people down thiB way. A Christmas tree for the Sunday school scholars and other good chil dtcn is being arranged lor Christmas eve. A paper was circulated and re ceived liberal subscriptions for defray mg expenses and decorating tho tree. Iho committee should seo to it that the tree and exercises are held in the hall as that is tho only placo largo enough to hold the crowd that is sure to bo prccnt. FROM BOSTON. Listening to the Sermons Talmage and Savage. A Visit to Th-mouth Hock, and 'Other Historical of Interest Hunker Points Of Hill, The Columbia Cycle Calendar. " o desire to return thanks to the Pone Manufacturing Co., of ISostoo, Mass., for one of their unique and handy calendars uriwi, i no calendar is in mo iorra oi a pad containing 3U'J leaves, each CJx2 Inches ; one for each day of the year, to be torn oil' dnily, and one for the entire year Kr-ttle oro is being hoisted from All"e w.or 0,m .0l eac" ,e" 13 a nicior Miuui'jMtiiuu. iwiu ua uiu jcuven uru omy fan eni'd at the upper end, any leaf can be exjioicd. No stub is left when the leatea arc torn oil'. The pad rest upon a stand. hett !) lv of frou cold ore below the j oontaiuinj; pen rack- and pencil holder, and 0 f.t 1-vel in oamp. Tho nbovo r' 7 ' ur- .... . face of die uuto leaf Is brought directlr and open- , will he iv.ui;. lor a iuj ion kei.fouiiMamly before the eye. uiaklnK it lit ihv) bpriiiji. i impoMii-lo to overlook date or uiemorauda. Th. tt,cxpeeUdi-.,U snap early in ino . . 01 8,a",eu woou' raou"" lag mi o -iiainental paper weight. JVt 1 ' . tbf II ! I in i. . cuit 't C'.j.t. plough, owur 4 .it.i en. !, t "liut down wa ; ! i c i.i i i .. owners of tin? .. iio 4 -1 . i nin'd iu cuiiip .' ir t : i. ill .r fall th'.lll- vv vt. Iu 1 M of fold fruin i li iiU v . .it A y hri , .in I i fti id 'MMiituiii olitaiiuiit, ,., ! A" lb ' I.irual proihi' -h iu . BueUlea'B Arnica Salve. T.ik 'ur Ualxi: in tlioVorld for Cuts, llrju. u t, Ulcer, bait Ithcuui, Fever . it'r,CliHipi'd Hands, Chilblains, r..-, Hi all bKill Eruption, mid pokl -j. 111, or rai pay n.pilred, It i. mi irui ui-l to five perfect tutittfactlou, r . ! riMiude'l. Price 'A cent per Uix iu. m'.vui Jlrowir drui tore, Hoktos. Mass., Dec S, 1SX). Editor Ohkuon Scout : I must go back to Brooklyn and New York to commenco my story. On Sunday, tho 23d, I went to Ply mouth church and heard ono of the best Ecrraons I ever heard fall from tho lips of man. It was a gospel of life and hope for all tho world. That evening I went to New York and heard Dr. Talmage. I heard a gospel of ter ror and despair. He preached at tho Academy of music. I was told the building would not hold the crowd, so I went at an early hour about (5 o'clock. When I got there I found a crowd at the doors. I took n posi tion as near as I could get and stood till 7 'clock. By that time there must have been between four and five thousand peqplc gathered in front of tho building. When the doors were opened I never saw such a rush in my life. They ran over each other liko a band of sheep. Just hb I got insido the door I saw a lady prostrate on the door and tho crowd running over her. I saw a policeman trying to assist her but I was borne on by the press nod do not know how she fared. When I got a seat I looked back at the doors six of them and the crowd was rushing through them liko they were shot out of a cannon. In fifteen or twenty minutes tho house was full and the doors were closed. Mr. Talmage stepped forward on the platform and lined a hymn. After tho singing he commenced talking about Jesus and Palestine, making postures liko a clown. He described Jesius as tho mighty God who camo to earth as a carpenter's son, with saw and Jiammer and cal loused hands. He said Jesus made Palestine with one Uiand and wrote thethiblo with tho other. Ho made more fun than anything else and had his audionco laughing about half the time. Ho said tho dirtiest placo ho saw in Palestine was a. soap factory. He said the skeptic would not believe because lie wanted evidence and be cause ho could not see. He remarked that some cattle had boras and some had none and wanted to know if any one could Xell tho reason wliy. "Ilav you a backbone?" he exclaimed "How do you know? Havo you over teen it?" This it about tho substance o his sermon. Tho ono in Plymouth church was the wheat; this ono was the chaff. I pay but little Attention any more to cities and eight-Heeing. I am iu search of food for tho intellect and the heart. On the 24th I took tho train for Boston. That was tho most inter csting day's travel sinco I left home I could not help constantly exclaim ing "Oh ! what beautiful scenery" yet I could not see how tho peoplo made their living. But little farm land was visible. It was almost a city from New York to Boston. On tho 25th I mado a visit to the Christian Register, and gave them tho names of a number of frivnds in Oregon to send sample copies to. I mado a trip north, beyond the Bunker Hill monument and back to South Boston on thn sea shore. I, al so went to Boston Common to seo the famous "frog pond," tho State house, Uie new soldier's homo and Bailor's monument. On tho 27th I went out in search of a church to hear tho xnamcsgiving service out tound none and as it was cold and cloudy and try ing to snow I went back to tho hotel. Next morning I look the 8 o'clock train for Plymouth Rock, 40 miles from Boston. As soon as I reached there I went down on the shore to seo the old rock. There at my feet it lay with tho simplo inscription "1620." Standing there, looking out over Ply mouth bay, I felt liko exclaiming "Oh, poor and heroic pilgrims, landing on tho poorest part of our continent, how did yon maaag to livo?" I always thought that Oregon had too many rocks and waste land to bo a very rich State, but I give it up, wo have our rocks piled up in Oregon, but here they are all over the face of tho earth. They havo been trying to pile thorn up here, and have got tho whole country enced with rock, yet from New York to Plymputh is tho most interesting country I have ever travoled through. There is wealth hero but I don't know low they net it. From Plymouth lock I wont to Burial Hill, tho city of the heroic dead, Then I pawed over the hill to the National Pilgrim' moiiu. mont, and bowed in revorenco to our pilgrim forefathers. Returning to the hotel for dinner, I registered my name and tho land lord scoing I was from Oregon, went after mo for a chat. Everybody out here are going to Oregon when they get ready. I gave him ono of my pamphlets which interested him very much. I think I hit tho nail on the head in that pamphlet and all I have to do is to drive it in deeper. After dinner I went to Pilgrim hall, and viewed its interesting collection of relics of tho forefathers, many of thorn brought over in tho Mayllower. Lato in tho evening I took tho train back to Boston. On the 29th I visited the navy yard 4tud saw cannons and cannon balls enough to last for the next thousand years. At least they would last mo that long. From there I went to the Bunker Hill monument and atcended to tho top of it. It is not so high as tho Washington monument but nioro dillicult and dangerous to ascend. Tho stair winds continually and is very steep so if you wero to fall you would not stop until you got to the bottom. Tho Washington lnonumen is diilercnt. You go up a flight stairs and then have a level lloor 25 or SO feet to walk nnd then another High t of stairs and there is no more danger than going up stair i in a house Today, tho "frog pond" on Boston Common is frozen over and tho boys aro having a good timo skating. On tho .'10th I went to Unity church to hear M. J. Savage, the groat liberal preacher of Boston. It was another sermon of hfo and hope for all tho world. Ou tho 3rd of December, tho confer- of tho Unitarian churches commences After I attend that I. .will go on m way rejoicing. 1 think I will go to Portland, Maine, by water, on the At lantic ocean. Prom 4hero througl Canada to Niagara Falls, thenco back to Chicago on my way to Oregon. don't .know how long I uiav be on tho road. j lnicuucu io icavo Jioston two or three days ago, but I got acquainted with an old Unitarian who has resided in JJoston for fifty years and ho has been showing mo around tho city it :.i . ixu Bum io jiio -you must stay over Sunday and .go with mo to hear M. J. Savage, in the evening." I did so and 1 .. ..1 r . iiuu u jjicusiiuj. nine, j nave jnot so many people on this trip that I feel as tliougli 1 am hardly a drop in tho great ocean of human life. J. NEWMAN. Styles The Latest- MILLINERY! i A Largo Invoice of Fall and Winter Goods Just Received. IPSIIil "A1-r A Spccliiltyr- And None but tho most Skillful Artists Employed. THE WEW YORK" Everything in the Millinery Lino Constantly on Hand. Also a Choice Assortment of ' Pfliccoe' o m ri l.nhiMMnHof I-. n MEDICAL SPRINGS. a peculiar Affliction Tho Sanger Mines Some Recent Sales. Undo David Coblo is building a new barn. George Dillon is rusticating at tho springs. Undo Billy Wilson is visiting at tho county seat. C. J. Wilson is on the sick list but is convalescing. Samuel Rutlege, of tho Park, has moved to Grando Rondo valley for tho winter. Dunham Wright is hauling ico pie paratory to erecting an ico house, but thero is no signs of ico yet. II. A. Myers has finished his con tract of excavating at the springs for a hot houso, after a threo weok's siege. .Tho Roy mill is running at full blast and wo soon expect to hear of a splon did cleanup as tho mill is running on very rich ore. White, of tho W. W. camp on Paddy creek, has sold his interest in their rich mine at that placo, tho Mix Brothers, of Cornucopia, being tho lucky purchasers. Mr. Kennedy, of Baker City, is at tho springs doctoring for a rare and strango affliction of tho throat, tho or gans of tho same being apparatly paralyzed. Z. T. Bowman, engineer of tho mill at Sanger, is visiting frionds and rela tives on Big creek and Lower Powder. He has only lost elovon days in thirty- eight months. Crooks Barnes is suffering from a Bevcro wound on the hand. While ho was saddling a half wild broncho ho got his index finger entangled in tho rigging and is now minus a portion of his (licit. I . - - - n - -. L. A. Ravage, of Cornucopia, who camo to the springs two weeks aga, af flicted with rhoumatism, is improving rapidly and in a few days will be aUlo to return homo, as ho says, "to saw his winter's wood." John Orimmin and Burt Nunn, ot Sanger, wero on tho creek a fow duys ago buying fresh pork, lar'l and other Bupplies, Mr, Ntmn In running tho boarding homwat tho Roy mill, The mtago driver dino with then), Prices Cheaper thnn any other houso in tho county. Call and bo Convinced. Mrs. L. B. Rinehart 5?-KpSS, llnttcr and Wood taken in trade. 1 Main Street, Union, Or. 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