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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1900)
8 THE SUMPTER MINER. Wednesday, April 18, 1900 THE GENTLEMAN FROM COLORADO Discusses Portland as Mining Center. the of a smelter. Do you think one of those mortgage dealers or mackintosh and um brella merchants would subscribe money to pay 510,000 for a carload of concen trates that looks like building sand; or one-tenth of that sum for a carload of ore in which he can't see thirty cents worth of gold? Now, if I wanted to or ganize a stock company creamery, or build .1 customs hay precs, I would go to Portland to float the proposition. "I have heard of a device, a gaudy bait, that would catch a Portland sucker on a kindergarten mining deal; but will not P ' " The Sumpter Lumber Company 1 In Tllti MlNf-K last week was published , some interesting remarks made by a min ing man from Colorado, niient pi ices, charged for prospects In the Sumpter dis- divulge the scheme, for fear that some of trlct. The gentleman returned a day or these scalpers here from the northern two since from a trip to Portland. He camps might succeed in raising the price read the report of his after-clieese-and- necessary for its successful operation, and crackers speech and didn't like it; said "-t would injure tills district, which I that on an auspicious occuslon like that a ' don't want to aid in doing. Several years man doesn't talk for public consumption, , aRo some of the boys at Cripple Creek that under such circumstances one is too tried in on Stoux City, Iowa which Is a apt to say what he thinks, which Is never i "inning mate for Portland and all of the proper thing to do, when this talk Is their ladies wore sealskin sacques. to be made public through the medium of the press. "Hesldes," he said, "there Is a sort of I'rce Masonry among miners, of a similar high order to that for which the plumbing fraternity has been made famous by the funny paragraphed, and uc don't like to Ferry on his way back to Inspect some TO BUILD EMBANKMENTS. Materials Carried in Flumei at a Cent a Gublc Yard. State Engineer Ross stopped at Glen's take the stock buying public into ourconli deuce. No harm Isdonewhen youadroilly allow yourself tube run down and cornered by one of these very prevalent alfalfa re porters, who will take in any kind of a reservoirs being constructed there for I A. Ilerron, the wide awake merchant of that place. He found that Mr. Ilerron was not only a live business man, but something of an engineer also, having de- plpe dream and, after leading him on to vised a method of constructing embank' making you confess that you site one of ments that may be very advantageously the world's great mining experts, possess' lug some sort ol an occult power to pene trate and reveal the secrets of old Earth's boosom, give him an exclusive story about a wonderful mine you own. I Jo adopted whenever conditions are such as to make It feasible. Mr. Ilerron has a ditch carrying some 200 inches of water. This comes around on top of a hill near the reservoir sites. He turns the water down you Know I love to read that kind of 'ie 11111, caicues 11 in a uume near me noi stuff? 1 hey are all built on the same ' torn and carries it to the point where the general design. Of course, the property embankment Is to be constructed. Is one to attract the Interest of the con-1 The Hume is built at such a grade that servatlve investor; the ore is not rich, ' it carries along all the sand and clay torn carrying only about 92)61.4) In gold with I from the hillside by the water In Its des enoughcupper to yay for smelting charges, 1 't. The Hume is constructed across the but there is a good siml ledge of It, 107. she of the proposed embankment. At the feet In the face of the tunnel, which Is far end the water, with all its sedimentary easily mined, with plenty 0! timber and . accumulations, is permitted to escape. By water handy. throwing up little dykes on the ground "And speaking of Mock buying, that J the sediment Is easily settled, while the reminds me that I have just returned from I water flows away. Portland, where I went some days since In this way a perfect embankment is to Sorter' sle up the camp-though, as a built up. When one section has been matter ol fact, Portland wouldn't remind raised to the proper helghth a section Is any one of a transaction in stock in a ' knocked out of the Hume and thus the thousand years. Iliad been reading the embankment is constructed backward livening Telegram since my arrival here ' over the line that had been occupied by and saw niuili In its columns about the1 the Hume. town being the mining center of the North-' At the discharge, a section of the flume west. 'I h.it Interested me, because if I is kept so that it can be pointed In any do any business here, I will perh.ips have desired direction and the bank is thus pro occasion to turn a trick or two in the iiiin- tected. The sand and clay and gravel lug center of the Northwest. So I went down to investigate; to look- over the ground in the d.iy time to see wh.it I could pkk up .it night, as it were. "Well, I li.iveu't before in all my e. peilence been so much disappointed. It is settle hi a compact mass where they are wanted and the water Hows 011 This bank has a natural slope and, moreover, is perlectly solid. Mr. Herron diives wagons loaded with rock over sec tions of the bank on (lie day after the The Only Place... To get bills filled promptly and completely. Kiln-dried and finished lumber. Sash and doors wholesale and re tail. Jobbers' prices on wholesale orders. J. B, STODDARD, Manager Fritz & Dwyer We buy and sell all kinds of City Property. We handle Mining Properties, on commission or for cash. sF GRANITE STREET. We have made a great many sales of City Property and mining claims the past few weeks. Eureka Feed & Livery Company J. L. SULLIVAN, Manager. Horses Boarded by the day or Month. First class turn-outs and saddle horses. Our spec ialty is the quick and safe delivery of freight and passengers to any and all points. 3 HAY AND GRAIN FOR SALE-K no milling center and the people now there water has been turned oft will never make it such. They aie a lot A very Important feature of this device ol street lorurr suspender merchants and for building embankments Is its- cheapness, truck wagon vegetable venders. I hey Mr. Herrou having reported to Mr. Ross have been noisily endeavoring lor months that it costs him less than a cent a yard to raise f sooo lot the purpose ot establish-1 to Pt the dirt in its place Boise States lug a milling exchange and have failed. '' In the first place, that amount of money would llo.it only a toy exchange, and If they had ten times the amount, the en terprise would be a failure, because what supports a milling exchange is a popula tion that trades In stocks. The trend of the Portland mind is narrowly commer cial; what he wants to buy Is a bankrupt stock of 'clodiugs'. If he has a sporty strain hi his blood, he is satisfied with an investment in a Chinese lottery ticket. "There Is 110 question but what Its loca-' lion and transportation facilities favor the ' establishment there of a smelter, but if one is ever built and operated, it will be by men from other sections. Aside from the cost of the plant, large working capi tal is necessary for the successful running No Market for Ore at Baker Gty. Some parties from Rye Valley brought ! to this city a few days ago a wagon load of ore weighing one and a half tons, for the purpose of selling It if possible. The 1 ore was worth $200 per ton, but it seems I that the parties were unable to sell. Rye ' Valley ore Is very valuable, and many I claims arc being located there dally. The THE GEM SALOON A. J. STINSON, Prop. (Successor to Snyde & Stinson) Only the Best Brands of Liquors Served Over the Bar SUMPTER, OREGON veins are shallow but brine out verv rich ' Til .11 ........ ore. 1 ins louniry is locaieu aooui winy miles south of this city. Baker City Re publican. 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