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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (March 14, 1900)
THE SUMPTER MINER. Wednesday, March 14, 1900. BUYING PROSPECTS. Encouraging Exhibition Faith in This District. of It Is reported on the streets, apparently authoritatively, that Captain J. R. Wood has since his arrival here three weeks since, IioukIU fifteen or twenty prospects in tills district. Tie gentleman is now in tlie Greenhorn country and could not he seen to confirm this story. 11 line entirely true, u is in usei me , past two inoulll best practicil recommendation the gold fields of Oregon have yet received. Cap tain Wood is a mining expert of long and varied J experience, of lecognied ability and repute. Ik represents "all kinds of money," and stated to a MINER man on ills first visit here last fall, that lie wished to buy only a developed property; if pos sible, one with a mill on it and a dividend payer. Apparently, the price would cut little figure that is the amount of money required to handle the property if other conditions were favorable and the propo sition of sulliclent magnitude. It is known that he tried to make deals to se cure several such mines in tills district. If tile report be true that he lias now bought undeveloped prospects, It means two tlings: One that he lias failed to get what he wanted, for the reason that such properties are not on the market; the weary pilgrim, freighter and traveler again, that on investigation he is con-' can wash down the dust during tlie sum- Much Freight Awaiting Shipment. The depot and yards of the Sumpter Valley railway at Raker City present a busy appearance these days, where tliey are loading from seven to ten cars of freight "daily for Sumpter and the camps tributary to this town, h Is learned that twenty-five carloads of goods are now in tlie warehouses there awaiting shipment to tills point for distribution to the west of Sumpter. The railway people are putting In new side tracks and spurs to better fa cilitate the handling and loading of cars. Never less than tive cars per dav have been loaded for Sumpter within the With tlit two regular p.iNsenger trains arriving and departing after Thursday, the fifteenth, matters, will take on a busy air with the Sumpter Val ley road. Another Mill Street Saloon. Crandall ik Irvine have opened their 1 new saloon next door south of the Golden tingle hotel, on Mill street. The place Is tastefully fitted and Stocked with such merchandise as will please the most fas tidious wet goods patron. Thev handle" the Columbia draught beer, made in Sumpter, which will also serve to make 1 tlie house popular, as It will all others hi 1 their line. New Roadside Inn. ' J. H. Tomllnson has established a' resort a short distance tills side of the live-1 mile summit on the Granite road, where vinced that tills is almost a sure thing mining couutiy and that there Is much truth in the boast that there has never been a mining failure here where tlie operators have "gone down" intelligently, and therefore he feels safe in Investing his own and his friends' money in claims and their development. And such an opinion from such a source, the theory being put into practice through the expenditure of large sums of money, means much for this district; for it will induce the investment of other capital in the same direction and that is what all mining countries need. No camp receives any benefit from the investment of out side money in its dividend paying stocks. nier season, or be served with a square meal, or light lunch If desired. Tills place will do a thriving business, no doubt. Standard or fancy table wines, cham pagnes and after dinner liquors at the Mint saloon, corner Center and Sumpter streets. Robert Buchanan Is emphatically the coming peer of America's best comedians. Chicago Times. Quartz and placer location blanks of the most approved form for sale at Till: MINER office. The Columbia beer, brewed in Sumpter, is today as good as any made. Pelton Water Motor Is so superior to all others as regards strenth, durability and economy of water, in fact all that constitutes a HIGH CLASS WATER MOTOR, as to admit of no comparison, adapted to every variety of service and made of sizes varying from the fraction of i up to too H. P. Recent scientific tests made at the Michigan University in connection with sev eral other motors claimed to be the best on the market showed 45 per cent higher efficiency in favor of favor of tlie PELTON, while tlie rela tive cost per H. P. to buy was only one-third to one-half that of others. Water companies desiring to make tlie best of their water supply should discriminate in favor of the PELTON. Deliveries made from New York or San Francisco, as may afford the best freight rates. Circulars free. One of these motors can be seen any time operating THE MINER presses. THE PELTON WATER WHEEL CO. 143 Liberty Street, New York. 125-129 Main St. San Francisco, Calif. WE ARE. ...The Leaders v !n Clothing, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Kubber Wear, Etc. WE BUY ALL OUR GOODS IN CARLOAD LOTS WHOLESALE AND RETAIL C. J. Johns' Big Store NewSpringGoods ?aW will begin to arrive dailv next week, and we can promise the handsomest line of DRESS GOODS ever shown in Sumpter. Men's and Boys' Spring Hats are here now, and others are arriving from time to time. SPECIAL a beautiful lise ol Ladies' Mus line Underwear. iWust be seen to be appreciated. The HARDWARE DEPARTMENT has been fuily stocked up again with everything in shelf and heavy hardware, builders' tools, iron and steel and miners' wares: also largest stock of paints, oils, sash, doors and window glass in East ern Oregon. New goods are arriving constantly. & C. J. JOH NS, Sumpter STARR & ODELL MINES BOUGHT AND SOLD 3? We are fully equipped to make reports on mines, and can handle prospects or developed mines. Main ollice, Sumpter, Oregon. Hranch Ollices, Spokane, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. Cor. Center and North Streets, Sumpter, Oregon. telephone No. iji. V First and Always t a THE J ( !j 3ffiL Golden Eagle Hotel I S 'I hroughout. 'iM J M" f Only White Labor -Vj C Employed. ? All Outside Rooms. GELLATl.Y & FOWLER. J Only Half Block ........ 0 " North of Depot. Mill Street, Sumpter, Oregon 3 THE BEST APPOINTED & & Pharmacy IN EASTERN OREGON. No prescription too difficult to fill. (Service day or night.) A complete line of druggists sundries, stationery and toilet articles. New arrival of Neckwear , and E & WCollars. k . i ' l it Neill Mercantile Co. Cor. Granite and Mill Streets g The Sumpter Drug Co. L. C. EDWARDS, MANAGER. SUMPTER, OREGON.