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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1900)
4 THE SUMPTER MINER. Wednesday, July 18. 1900 COLORADO MAN HERE. Many Operating Successfully in the Sumpter District. Under a Sumpter date of July 4, K. R. Casper wrote to the Denver Post iin in teresting Irtler, of the personnel of former Colorado mining men who are now operating liere. Willi the oft re peated storv of the paying mines elimi nated, the article is as follews: It th gold lields of rastrrn Oregon urrr situ.ited right or nine hundred miles north of thr boundary in the Northwest Irrritotv. or two or three hundred miles 1 rout a r.ulro.id in tin- lie.irt of the Sierra M.idrr, ill Mrxi.n, .uiessihlr only hy the roughest Ulnil of roids, or hreak-nrck trails, there would he .1 stampede to net there. Stu.irt, who was with Geo. B. Robinson at Kokamo. John I'. I. eland, who landed in Lead vllie in J.inu.iry, 1879, and had charge of the Fryer Hill Mining company's prop erty, is another. He was also foreman, at one time, for Gov. Robinson. In 1882 he went to Aspen, where he remained for several years. He returned to l.eadvllle in 18K7, and took charge of the Hilltop mine. Afterwards, and for a year before Senator George Hearst's death, he ex amined properties for him. Few men have had a wider range of experience than he. He has been here three years and has been over the country thoroughly, and says it has no superior outside of Colorado. Colonel I. T. Grayson, the mining en gineer, formerly of Denver, and who had iharge of the I.. MiGregor and Phoenix, on Gold hill, which was Ivmght by H. McK. Iwomblev, son-in-law of the late Win. H. Vauderbilt, has his headquarters in Maker City, and is developing the "Mabv McKee," in the Cable Cove dis- trit, ten miles from here. He tells me he I here N no romaiur mnnntrd witli thr , ht.lrvrN thls s an tension, or contina name of Oregon. It Is not a name to mil-1 ,,.... (l( .1.- ma,ueT lode of California. , , 1 - - -.. ----. ----- - -. I:r.inl S. Chesney, who went to jure w llh. I hrre is no room tor anv plav ul the imagination. It savors ol "web fret" and "inosshacks," as its inhabi tants have been called lor srver.il genera lions, and will continue to be tailed lor a long time to mine, because the ihmate is exceptionally healthv. In spite 0! its Georgetown in iHfiu, and to Silver flume in 187), and who lauded in l.eadvllle in 1878, is also iiere. He was afterwards at Red Cliff. He has been here three years, and success has attended him. He owns the Chel in, which adjoins the Red Boy, name, or its people, Oregon is a great ; ,)lr , .,.. .,,., ......,., ... .1.. auuc. state, and it is a .i.estiou whether anv ' . ). Bellinger, who was superintend other si. lie II. is greurr tuuirvrinpru souries. "" 1 cut and grnrr.il manager of the tnmoiis "Slide" mine, in Moulder county, in 18061 ind 1807, is another. I believe this prop I here Is pieritv of room, Ihougli. for the ( fMy it ow ,,. ttis s(lM u j750i000( Intelligent, well-equipped pinspnlot, es penally the Colorado prospntnr, who uu doubtedlv stands at tlir head ol this pern liar calling. I heir .are in.inv ol them here, too. Some of them have succeeded, while others. ire tfiggiug awav quietly in the hills. All ol them, without a single exception, 'villi those who ll i e "slrilik it," and Ihnsr who haven't, agiee that it Is a good muntrv. It reminds them ol Colorado and that is a pretlv good sign, I lir oldest Coloradoan I have met is Grn. Charlrs S. Warren, who was in larryall, Park munly, in 1, with hi-, lather, ot the linn of Mowers Watren, who unr the principal pl.u'rr miners' there at that time. As I iiudristaud it, that was soincw here .uross the range from MreikeiitlJge. Since then he has mined extrnslvelv in Montana and Mritlsh Columbia. He his invested largely here, and has come to stay. He sav-s it Is a pitv these gold tields are not in iolorado. Next in line is HarrvS. McCallnm, who takes pleas ure in telllnj. how he' drove a team into l.eadvllle in 1877, where he remained un til iSS). He was a drputv, uutler Sherllt and was ome owned hv Wllliard leller. He t.imi- here two years ago, and was tmploed at the Bouaua, one of the best mines, situated id miles from here. Old I i in Kennedy, whom everybody knows, and who made lots of money at l.eadvllle, and spent lots of it mining at Mietkrnridge, has an extension of the Ho nana, v hlv.li piomises well. I here are quite a number here from Cripple Creek. M. (J. Strock, who is here for himself and some Colorado asso ciates, has located a line copper property seven miles from Maker City. Now, the natives have located the whole surround ing country. Frlsble & Savage, tw o very old-timers in Cripple Creek, are running a live-stamp mill near Maker City, on custom ores, and are doing well. J. W. Carr and voting Mr. Ferris, son of "Tim berline" Ferris, formerly of Cripple Creek, are developing a property at Alamo, about io miles from here. ' John W. Holaud, who was in l.eadvllle from 1870 to 1801, and in Aspen until i8oj, has been in this vicinity for the past six years. He Is connected with Pitts burg people, who are developing the I mkrr, and was .me of the guards who , Am,lt,ll( Bl.ickhlrti, Gold Boy and others held the Chrxsollle mine at th lime of the strike in iK8o. I remember him well as one of the number w ho protected Muj. A. I. M0I111 Irom a threatened attack hv the siri. kers in Harrison avenue, in trout ot the Clarendon hotel,. -is thr Pitkin light F. I. Couroy, who was associated with Darby, Page and Nichols, in l.eadvllle, and w ho made the first map of that famous town, is representing a large syndicate of liastern i.ipaitallsts which has done near ly 2,500 feet of development work during cavalry were a, ting as an escort in bring- l)lr ,, v,Car, and said nothing about it. lug over tlie Rrd Hill the stand of arms These are a few of the old time Colnra whiili had been sent there by t iovernor I doans I have met. Miners aiid-prospec; ., ,. , 1 tors I meet every day so much so that I 1 "" ' , , ,',,,,., . ... I vannot realize I am In Oregon, but really After th it he mined in Utah and Idaho, srcm , , Colorado. mining here less than two years ago. At Major Cooperand his corps of able as- present he is general manager and treas-' sistants, of the Denver A Rio Grande .r-r .,1 11.- M-Hiimnth -nut H ai.t Mmint iin railway, did much In the way of advertls urerot the Mammoth and Maid. Mountain , hj m,Mcrj teMUKCi o( Colorado. lompanles, two, scperate and distinct cor-1 -j ,c Oregon Railroad and Navigation porations, owned bv New York, Boston company Is doing similiar work for east- and Lowell capitalists. em uregon, mrougn w. n. nuriDun. Moth mines are well equipped with ma chinery. Ihirtvlive thousand dollars has been expended 011 the Mammoth, and they sank through a "horse" 180 feet thick betore reaching the ore body, which had given out at thirty five feet. This property had produced over Moo.ooo in side of thirty-live feet, and was thrown up as being worked. It is situated seven miles from here. Assochled with him as foreman ol the Bald Mountain is h'd. K. . of Portland What this country needs, now that it has the Colorado miner and prospector, is the Colorado capitalists and linancicr. The town of Sumpter is reached from Baker City by the Sumpter Valley rail road, thirty-one miles in length. It has an altitude ot j.soo feet, a good water system, electric light plant, two banks, half a dozen brick buildings, many stores, too many saloons, and although less than a veir old, Is larger than l.eadvllle was In 1881, although it contains fewer people and scarcely any floating population. 9 Capital Hotel MRS. G. B. TfcDROAVE, Proprietress Centrally Located Electric Lights Newly Refurnished Free Bus and Baggage Headquarters for Commercial and Mining Men. Passengers Wayhlllcd To all Points on Stages. Sumpter 2 Oregon sp oooonooooooooo Inclusive Agent tor thr Celebrated WKINHARDS BEF.R On draught or hv bottle. oooooooooooooo "The Olympus f H. FINGER, Proprietor. High Grade Wines. Liquors and Cigars. Sumpter, Or. Free Assay... During the next jo davs every new subscriber to The Miner, who pays $2.00 for one year's subscrip tion in advance will be given one assay for gold of anv rock he mav bring in, Kree of Charge The Sumpter Miner Sumpter, Ore. y