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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1900)
Wednesday, April 18, 1900 IO THE SUMPTER MINER. GREAT "BURLINGTON." Not Liable to Connect With a Branch Road to John Day. The Portland papers have recently Riven much space that ini(ht better have been filled with palmistry fakes, quack midlclne miracles and delinquent tax-list swindles to the idiotic story that the Kreat Burlington railway is going to push its line In through Wyoming and Idaho to connect with the Columbia Southern somewhere down about I'rineville or Granite, and form uith It n grand, trans continental highway via Mrppner, Moro and Biggs. The wild absurdity of the yarn would have killed It anywhere on e.irth except in a Willamette creek print ing oilier, before Ink and type were wasted on it. The Columbia Southern Is a little branch of the O. It. ft N., running through a rich and growing region, where it is valuable and prolitable, hut It is not yet 100 miles long. The liurliugton Is one of the live greatest railway systems hi the world. It owns, controls and oper ates nearly K.ooo miles of superbly built and equipped railroad. Its tracksof gleam ing steel gridiron eleven ol the great central states of the Union the very heart of the continent. Such cities as Chicago, St. I. mils, St I'aul, Minneapolis, Omaha, Kansas City and Denver are strung, like huge municipal jewels In a mighty necklace, along its thousands of miles of lines. Its construction and equip ment are unsurpassed upon the globe, and Its trains are models of safety, speed and luxury on wheels. Its total capital ization in f2o6,o)o,ioo; its assets foot up 1206,093,456; and Its earnings for the year ending June 30, 1898, amounted to the gigantic sum of 142,800,162. That this magnificent colossus of roads should be reported as,building or propos ing to build, out in the wilds of the John Day headwaters, to meet and embrace a little loo-mlle branch road of any other system, and that the report should find credence enough to secure its publication In a dally paper, would pass belief almost anywhere outside of Timbuctoo or Boor-la-Koola-Gha. The hurllngton is coming to the Pacific Coast but every Indication points to the probability, the almost certainty, of its coming down on the north side of the Co lumbia. In combination with the North ern Pacific, it has just begun to run a superb dally train through from St. Louis and Chicago, without change of- cars, to Seattle, Tacoma and Portland. It has its own line to Billings, Montana, and its 1 engineers have for months past been mak ing tentative surveys of the country over towards the headwaters of the Salmon and Snake rivers. Such a Hue would bring It in somewhere in' the region of l.ewiston, and then the absorption or con solidation of the Central Navigation and Construction company's Ikies aiTd fran chises would clear'the way to the lower Columbia valley and the coast. There are many glittering possibilities In the nearby sweet subsequently. The Dalles Times Mountaineer. Nolle to Creditors. All accounts and notes due me, not satisfactorily settled by May 1, 1000, will be placed In the hands of an attorney and costs added. Dated at Sumpter, Oregon, April 4, 1000, CLANK SNYDU. Superior job printing at this office. The Sumpter Lumber Company can sell doors and sash five per cent cheaper than any other concern in Eastern Oregon. Full stock of dry lumber now ready for the market ." J. B. STODDARD, Manager "THE GOLCONDA" SMffi D. M. FERRY & CO., Props. Only tht btst of everything, including first-cli J.' music, day and night. Family rooms up stairs. . Sumpter, Ore. A. C. SHAW Lumber Co. A. B. BLOOMER, MANAGER. Though and Dressed Lumber always in stock or sliced to order on short notice. Cedar shingles furnished with all orders if desired. Orders can be left with D. Copping, corner Sumpter and Mill Street, or at the mill. SUMPTER, OR. The Triumph Cigar IS THE World's Best Havana Cigar. FOR SALE EVERYWHERE. CHAS. I. FLYNN & CO. - Manufacturers STAR SALOON ALLEN & DEWEY Proprietors Handles the best of Liquors, Wines and Cigars. Draught beer a specialty by the pitcher, bottle or glass. Opposite Depot SUMPTER, OR. P. D. HEALY Smokers of Popular frauds of High Grade Cigars and Toluccos will find anything desired in this line at my old stand (formerly the shoe store.) Fresh Fruits, Nuts, Etc., received daily. HEALY BUILDING - SUMPTER, OREGON BiiifEiU-IT Fraser & Chalmers Chicago MILLING MACHINERY-Rolls, Stamps, Crushers. Perforated Metals, Jigs, Frue vanners, Etc. MINING MACHINERY-Boilers, including Sederholm Boiler, Air Compressors, Reidler Pumps, Fur naces, Etc. Write to our Chicago office for Catalogue. Represented by MENNO UNZICKER, Hotel Warshauer, AKCR CITY, OREGON Mining Stocks and Mines. Have facilities for telling Mining stocks of companies with toll! fintnclal tail. well onlcerel an well manage.1. Company mui iun4 thorough Investigation. AJJress, with prospectus and refer ences. L W. TULLEYS, Council Bluffs. Iowa. J3an.pai.e.jpning,pr.Qperties.oCmerit..- ...... w .. tM