THE SUMPTER MINER.
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JOHN ARMBRUSTER, President.
Wm. STINSON, Vice-President.
A. W. ELLIS, Secretiry
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Columbia Brewing & Malting Company
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Wednesday, March 21, 1900.
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Portland Man Give That Town the Tip
on Mining Matter.
Saturday evening the Mlneowners club,
of Portland, was addressed by D. Soils
Cohen. Just who this gentleman is THE
MINER doesn't know which admission
may be a confession of unpardonable
Ignorance but it does know that he has
more sense than a car load of the ordinary
typeof self-satified, provincial Portlanders.
The discussion seemed to be on how to
make Portland a mining center. Tp be
convinced that the above assertion regard
ing Mr. Cohen's mental status is true,
read below what he said on that occasien:
"And very much depends upon the city
itself. Portland has In instances been a
positive detriment to the mining interests
of the state. Its moneyed men, its mon
eyed institutions, far from assisting, have
In instances deliberately Impeded her min
ing progress. This city does not deserve
to be and never will be great in the direc
tion which we discuss, unless the spirit is
reformed. A base of supplies must also
be a money base. We cannot expect to
fatten on others' labor and give nothing,
risk nothing ourselves."
"This brings us to the -much-discussed
question of mining exchange and smelter.
Gentlemen, there are a great jnany useful
articles made out of paper. The Japanese
especially are wonderfully proficient and
inventive in turning it to many uses, from
a napkin to an overcoat. Buckets and
tubs are made of it in this country, and, If
I am not mistaken, I remember reading of
a house having been built of it, but you
can't make a smelter or a dry dock, or a
mining exchange out of paper. Any city
trying to do that may as 'well give up the
job. Chambers of commerce may resolve
and boards of trade may second the mo
tion; courteous emissaries may be sent
East and West; representatives and sen
ators may-be memorialized, but it takes-
cold cash to do business. Subscriptions
with strings to them never started a great
industry yet. ,
"A smelter In Portland need not be a
charity proposition, and the bonus system
would simply prove a drawback to its
success. Tacoma's smelter has been one
of her means of salvation. It helped to
save her from collapse In her dark hours,
and Is gloriously aiding to rehabilitate her
in her old prosperity today. A successful
smelter must be an absolute business
proposition, started and conducted on a
business basis. There is every oppor
tunity here, ns we all know, for business
success to such a venture. Until it be
comes a fact, Po'rtland can never become
a true mining center, and It can only be
come a fact through business talk in the
offices of our banks and not through
columns of suggestions and what this
man says and what that man says In the
newspapers.
"The newspapers publish these things
through excellent motives, through pub
lic spirit; they are naturally anxious for
accomplishments, and do what seems
proper within their power to produce
them, but this becomes In time a detri
ment, retarding Instead of advancing re
sults." Ledge Carrying $87 in Free Gold.
The biggest strike ever, made in free
gold In this vicinity was made today by
Sam Wilson, a ptospector near the limits
of the town site of Lawton. Great ex
citement is caused throughout this section
by the discovery made by Wilson, who
was "grub-staked" to operate In behalf
of Boise, Idaho, people. It is said a
strong ledge is shown and that values
across the vein average over $78 In free
gold to the ton. On the heels of this
strike another fine ledge was encountered
today in the Gougar mine. Baker ' City
Democrat.
Location bUnks.at the MINER office
New Mining Promotion Scheme.
A correspondent of the Seattle Times,
writing from Republic, mentioning no
names, gives this account of what he
thinks is a new and marvel mining pro
motion scheme: "It is one that bids fair to
be a boon to the mining regions of the
country at large, and of particular benefit
to Seattle. The promoters of the new
enterprise are a well-known former realty
man of St. Paul, who is at present In
Seattle; and a number of prominent resi
dents of Seattle of probity and business
sagacity. Briefly outlined, the scheme Is
the bringing prospectors and locators of
mining claims in touch with the moneyed
classes. The company will undertake to
furnish experienced prospectors from all
parts of the country to parties with money
desirous of exploiting the mineral wealth
of this state, British Columbia, Alaska
or any portion of the continent. They
will also furnish descriptions of holdings
by locators of claims In every mining reg
ion of the land. Parties desirous of em
barking n the mining business with a
small outlay can, in many Instances, ac
quire paying Interests by simply defray
ing the expenses of preliminary develop
ment work, allowing the original owner a
certain holding in the company. The new
company will also place syndicates in
touch with the owners of large and prom
ising finds, etc. In a word, they will
bring the prospector to the front with his
property at once, thus doing away with
the long and tedious years of waiting for
a purchaser to come in person. They do
not propose to cumber their books with
wild-cat propositions or the addresses of
adventurers, nor will they deal In any
mining stocks, good or worthless."
Choice business and residence property
In all parts of the city See D. Copping,
corner Mill and Sumpter streets.
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on sale only at the Mint saloon.
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