Wednesday,' March' 14, 1900.
THE SUMPTER MINER.
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''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 ..
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The Mining, Commercial and Financial Center of Eastern Oregon.
Population, Feb. 1, 1899,
Population, Jan. 1, 1900,
Population, July 1, 1900,
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1, 100 I
10,000 J C
T(he Brightest Star in the Mining Firmament
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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
Pour Saw Mills Three Jewelry stores. Three livery and freightliiK stables.
Electric light plant, with 60 arc lights and 2000 Two drug stores. Three stage, transfer and freighting companies.
Incandescents. Three cigar and confectionery stores and news Six stage lines.
A most 'modern $50,000 water system with 30 stands, with 12 newspapers on sale from the Three blacksmith shops.
fire hydrants. mining centers of the United States. ywo harness shops.
Public school buildings and church buildings. Two furniture stares. About 300 dwelling houses.
One steam laundry. Two tailoring establishments. Eleven business houses under construction, two
Two savings and one satety deposit bank. Two millinery emporiums. 0f wikli are brick.
Two newspapers. One fish market. Xwo two-story brick buildings completed.
One opera house. - Pour meat markets , , Sevel, assay 0,1iceS( nmerm,9 ren estate, inln-
Pour hotels. Pive barber shops. ,M , Ing brokers and law otlices, besides physicians,
Ten restaurants. Two bakeries. dentists and civil engineers.
About 15 lodging houses. Sixteen saloons. Number of secret societies.
Six general merchandise and grocery stores. The Sumpter Club. No city taxes.
Two hardware stores and pluinbiui: shops. One brewery. City out of debt.
Four dry goods and haberdashery stores. Two hay and grain stores. Splendid fire department.
The place for up-to-date, conservative, practical men to invest. Seeing is believing. Come and see Sumpter and
compare us with Republic, Kossland, 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
ondence solicited; Call on or address
Sumpter Townsite Company, Limited.
W. C. CALDER, Secretary
CHARLES S. WARREN, President.
TOM C. GRAY, Auditor.