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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1899)
I THE SUMPTER MINER. Wednesday, October 2t;, 1897. f 1 BUTTE PEOPLE IN SUMPTER. W. F. Cobban Tdls InterMounUin of SumpUr'i Boom. W. I:. Cobban lias returned from a bus iness trip to Sumpter.Uie mining district of Oregon, and Is In possession of a fund of Information concerning the place. He says the town contains about 1200 per sons and every Ingoing train Is full. Ev erythlng Is being run wide open. The mines arc located In the Hlue mountain range about six or ten miles from the town, and are wonderfully rich In gold, the predominating metal. All the work Is being done by tunnel. Mills containing 10 and 40 stamps each, Mr. Cobban says, are being built in the district. So far the Golcouda mine, owned by English & Son, has been the best producer. In de veloping It a pocket of gold ore was struck at the zoo-foot level and from It Mb.ooowas extracted In sixty minutes. Some of the rock was not rock It was solid gold. Mr. Cobban further says many Iltittc men are In the district and some are doing well. He will go back again In a few days. Among the Hutteltcs he noticed General Charles S. Warren, who Is mayor of the town, and has an Interest In every enterprise In the place. Fred Richie Is another. He also saw Charles lJ. Hooth, Angus McQueen, Menu Unlcker, Mr. Heebe, the millwright, and Tom Mnllit. The latter Is managing the Mam moth and Hunker Hill group of mines. The l.ongmald boys, of Helena, have been operating there live or six years and are doing well. Sumpter Is located In a gulch about thirty-one miles from Maker City. The district Is heavily timbered with tam arack and pine. 'I lie town has a narrow guage railroad, which extends into the timber. Hutte, Montana, Inter-Mountain. Buih Vun'l Avtnc to Recreation. Things sometimes happen. Once In awhile the unexpected happens. Ten years ago I.. Hush l.lvermore, son of Lot l.ivermore, of Pendleton, was a human clod like some of the rest of us, with a penchant for Saturday night recreation. Now Mr. I.. Hush l.lvermore Is one of the swiftest writers In the Northwest. Ills wrlteup of Sumpter camp, which Is lucky enough to hold him at present, pub lished in the Spokesman-Review of Tues day, bears the earmarks of genius. When one reads it the things described are pictured to him. It Is Illustration without photographs. There Is a great future in store for Mr. l.lvermore a fu ture that excites the envy of newspaper hacks whose years of scribbling will never put them In his class. Weston Leader. Midway Mining Company Organized. The Midway Gold .Mining company lias been organized with a capital stock of 550,000, divided into one million shares, of a par value of live cents each. A. I Jones is president! J. I;. Shelton, secre t.iry; A. I Jones, John T. Jones, S. J. lones, W. W. Illntoii and E. E. Hauser, directors. Six hundred thousand shares of the stock have already been subscribed tor. The property consists of nine claims, the Midway, Condor, 00, J. J., Red Fir, Otto, Jefferson, Jo Jo and Ke No, situ ated near the Hunker Hill. Some devel opment work has been done and the pros pects show up well. More Good Citizens for Sumpter. The New York Numbers Journal of September is publishes a picture and sketch of H. Orchard, who has located permanently In Sumpter. He is a friend of I. II. Messuer, foreman of McEwen & Sloan's freight department, who in duceJ him to come here. Mr. Orchard has been engaged for years in putting in water works In a dozen or more towns in the Northwest, principally on Puget Sound. He is a practical plumber and will engage in that business here. He has succeeded In renting a house and will move his family to Sumpter at an early day, from St. Johns, this state. His old est son recently returned with the Oregon troops from Manila, where he has been fighting the Insurgents. Mr. Orchard was accompanied here by W. J. May, a capitalist from Tillamook, who will also make this his home and Invest In mines and real estate. Why the Lights Vent Out. The electric lights went out Saturday night for a few hours, and there was a warm scramble in tills yere camp for candles and other glims. Some China men placer miners up the gulch had blocked up the head gate of the race which conveys feed water to the power house, and had diverted the wet In other directions. Engineer Thornton, six feet four in his socks, armed with a meat-axe, lantern and pitchfork, went up the gulch looking for Chinamen. An hour later the lights were turned on, though the mortality rate in Chinatown has not sen sibly increased. Greater U. P. Railway Let Out Officials. A New York press dispatch, dated Oc tober 20, says: The Union Pacific, Ore gon Short Line and Oregon Railway & Navigation company are consolidating agencies at common points. This is the natural result of the organization of the greater Union Pacific system. This will be carried on liidliultely. While no im portant official changes are contemplated now, before long several of the hlghenof- tic l.i Is will go. The Inevitable tendency wlll.be to concentrate the authority and operate the entire new system from one center. Spokane Fair Cleanup of Our Ore. J. S. Spencer, the representative of the Hammond Manufacturing company, this afternoon cleaned up the plates of the stamp mill which has been In operation at the Industrial exposition. The cleanup will amount to about thirty or thirty-live ounces of amalgam, or about $280. The ore which has been run through was from the Carrie H. mine, Baker county, Ore gon. Spokane Stock Report. , City Council Proceedings. Little business was transacted at the city council meeting Saturday evening, aside from routine work. A petition from property owners asking that an alley be opened through block 11, was granted. The street grade ordinance was again dis cussed at length, and an amendment sub mitted, regulating the placing of tele phone and electric poles. The final pas sage was postponed for one week. Handsome lithographed stock certlfij cates, and job printing of every descrlp tlon at Till: MINER office. New Harness Shop MCEMCN & SLOAN, proprietors, SUMPTER, OREGON. REPAIRING - A - SPECIALTY J SHOP J OPPOSITE THE LIVERY STABLE. Basche Hardware Co. Successors to W. R. HAWLEY. Sumpter, Oregon. General Dealers in. Shelf and Heavy Hardware Iron Steel Pipe Mining and Mill Machinery k Agents For., "Hercules" Powder Fuse and Caps C. C. Baschi ...Manager... H. J. JORY MINING ENGINEER. Northwestern Assay Office Samples by mall receive careful Attention. Mines examined, reports and maps furnished. BOX 122 ... . Sumpter, Or. New Bakery J J J AND CONFECTIONERY All kinds of Fiesh Fruit in Season. O. BRECHTEL, - Proprietor Opposite S. V. Ry. Depot. ' mil v. Nebergall practical Sign Writer ftousc painter aub Decorator. :: t CAPITAL HOTEL Z Sumpter Oregon. 4. '' L. N. CRANE & Co. Contractors and Builders. Cabinet Making, Upholstering and Mat tress Making a Specialty. HRST-CLASS WOKK GUARANTEED. Leave orders at the SUMPTER MINER office. MINES, MINING AND REAL ESTATE Choice Residence Property For Sale Cheap. List your mines and prospects with me and I will effect a sale for you. Have Eastern buyers for good mining properties. ...H. H, FRITZ,.. Nelll Block, corner Mill and Granite Sts.' 2d Floor, Sumpter, Ore, A n fr