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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1900)
i i" Wednesday, January 17, 1900. THE SUMPTER MINER. SUMPTER The Johannesburg of America j "There is a Tide in the Affairs of Men, Which, Taken at the Flood, Leads on to Fortune; That Time has now Arrived at .. Sumpter, Oregon .. 1 w The Mining, Commercial and Financial Center of Eastern Oregon. Population, Feb. 1, 1899, Population, Jan. 1, 1900, Population, July 1, 1900. 7 I S 1 j, 100 I 10,000 1 The Brigthest Star in the Mining Firmament tift & Sumpter, Golden Sumpter, is surrounded by dividend paying mines. There are ten quartz mills running day and night, turning out thousands of dollars in dividends. The district stands today, for development made, second to none on earth. Sumpter has a Railway l:our Saw Mill KlfCtrlc liRlit plant, with 60 arc lights and 2000 incandescents. A most modern 5o,ooo water system with 30 tire hydrants. Public school buildings and church buildings. One steam laundry. Two savings and one safety deposit Ivmk. Two newspapers. One opera house. Kour hotels. Ten restaurants. About is lodging houses. Six general merchandise and grocery stores. Two hardware stores and plumbing shops. Four dry goods and haberdashery stores. Three Jewelry stores. Two drug stores. Three cigar and confectionery stores and news stands, with 12 newspapers on sale from the mining centers of the United States. Two furniture stores. Two tailoring establishments. Two millinery emporiums. One tish market. Pour meat markets. Pive barber shops. ,, T 0 bakeries. Sixteen saloons. The Sumpter Club. One brewery. Two hay and grain stores. Three livery and freighting stables. Three stage, transfer and freighting companies. Six stage lines. Three blacksmith shops. Two harness simps. About joo dwelling houses. Pleven business houses under construction, two of which are brick. Two two-story brick buildings completed. Seven assay offices, numerous real estate, mhf Ing brokers and law offices, besides physicians, dentists and civil engineers. Number of secret societies. No city taxes. City out of debt. Splendid lire department. The place for up-to-date, conservative, practical men to invest. Seeing is believing. Come and see Sumpter and compare us with Republic, Rossland, Dawson and Cape Nome. The Sumpter Townsite Company, Limited, Capital stock $100,000 paid up, are now placing on sale a limited number of lots upon terms to suit purchasers. TITLE GUARANTEED PERFECT. United States patents over six years old. Warranty deeds given. Corres pondence solicited. Call on or address Sumpte Townsite Company, Limited. CHARLES S. WARREN, President. TOM C. GRAY, Auditor. W. C. CALDER, Secretary.