Wednesday, August 29. 1900
12
THE SUMPTER MINER.
FIXES PRICE OF LEAD.
Trust Decrees a Flat Rate of
$4 a Hundred.
The smelter trust, which controls the
lead market of the United States, has es
tablished a Hat rate of I4 per hundred
pounds for that product for the remainder
of the year. This rate applies to all the
product of the northwest. It Is ,1 consld
e rnble advance over the price paid earlier
in the year, and as such Is particularly
gratifying to thr owners of the large lead
producing mines hi the Coeur d'Alenes.
One reason for the advance may be
found in the fact that the United States
Is now absorbing the entire domestic pro
duct and uses in addition over ij.ooo.ooo
pounds per annum of Imported lead.
The last monthly report of the treasury
department gives the following Interesting
ligures relative to the lead in the United
Stales:
:or the fiscal year ending June 30, 1000,
the Imports and e.Nports of lead were as
follews:
I'nunJi.
Import "M'H.""
r.wu ii.j4.i
loii-li:" If'J lenulnlni: In ttir I'nllfJ
M.ilrs iu,i4.i8
eai In airlwurs lune o, i&m . IMW.WI
IfjJ In .iirliouf lunr ! !" ll.8M?4
Indrnsr In irlmun Juilnr ll IWl
yrar I"'. 1O.781
t nllrJ St,ilp fiinumfllnn ul lm-nMrJ
Ira I lit Uvl tn i.'i.4i
It will be seen by the foregoing that
this country absorbed all its own produc
tion and In addition uiS7,402 pounds.
It expotted only some doo.ooo pounds
Ijo ions nl domestic lead and th.it was in
the forms of manufactured lead. The
Milking feature Is that except more for
eign lead was imported than is exported,
our supply would be short. It has been
that Wiiv for the last ten years, every
vear. Under the law all Imported lead
must be exported or placed In warehouses,
so there can be no mistake hi the above
figures. 'I he imported lead comes from
Hritish Columbia and Mexico, much of it
Is tlie property of American companies
and pays no tariff so long as it is stored
or when shipped abnud. Hut List year
it will be seen iK7,4o: pounds were
used in tills country in excess of the total
domestic product. The tigures are pre
pared with the utmost care by the United
States olticlals specially selected to guard
the government's interests.
Commenting on the agreement to pay
5, the Salt Lake liibuue ipiotes the
smelter trust representative in tli.it iity as
s lyiut! that the rate was open to all w ho
appear In that market, whether they
loine twin Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming,
New Mrxkit or Colorado, or from the
Dominion ot Canadaon the north. What
agreement, II any, is governing the
market at other smelter points, Manager
Jones pleaded that he did not Know, and
that he was not supposed to be concerned
in the attairs ot those outside ot his own
jurisdiction. He supposes that the same
selling piice ot course exists In Denver
and other markets, but of that would say
nothing.
On the other hand, it N reported that
the Messrs. Guggenheim will pay f4 per
hundred pounds in every market entered
by them, w hetlier It be in Idaho or Mon
tana, Nevada or Wyoming, Colorado or
New Mexico, and it is not illogical to as
sume that the American Smelting and
Refining company will do as much, al
though Manager Jones ''don't know
uothin' 'bout anything" but his own
maiket.
Yellowstone National Park, entering, via
Monida and coming out via Cinnabar,
making it unnecessary to cover any por
tion of the route twice. For beautiful
descriptive booklet, write or call at Ore
gon Short Line Ticket Office, 142 Third
streel, Fortland, Oregon.
FIRST RAILROAD RIDE.
Wealthy Stockman Hai Novel Experience
in Idaho.
Dennis Crowley and wife, of Squaw
Creek, arrived in this city yesterday on
their way to visit friends near Detroit,
Mich. Mr. Crowley Is a well known
stock raiser who has prospered and Is
now taking a vacation. The remarkable
thing about the trip Is that, when Mr.
Crowley gets on the outbound train to
morrow morning to make the trip east,
he will be having a novel experience, for
neither he nor Mrs. Crowley has ever
been on a railroad train. Mr. Crowley is
now 70 years of age.
The fact of his never having been on
.1 train might not be extraordinary, If Mr.
Crowley had come to California on a
vessel and had then come over the moun
tains during one of the big rushes at the
time of the discovery of gold. This,
however, was not the case. Mr. Crow
ley landed in New York city in the year
1848, a poor working lad fresh from Ire
land. He worked hi New York city for
a time and then started for the west by
way oi the Erie canal. In this way he
worked his way to the great lakes.
I hence he sailed still further west and
joined one of the wagon trains which
crossed the plains to California. There
he engaged in many enterprises, Including
mining, stock raising and the like.
He came to Idaho from California in
1W0 and has since been a resident of this
state. His life has been lived chierly in
mining camps and on the stoik ranges,
and, as lie lias had no reason for travel
ing, he has never happened to take a
ride behind a steam engine in his life;
consequently all the wonders of modern
railroading, with its sleeping, dining and
parlor cars, Is a sealed book and will be
as novel to him as the first circus to a
couutrybred lad.
Mr. Crowley is very much interested
in his journey and speaks jokingly of his
greems in the matter of railroads. He
said that he thought it would be unneces
sary to blindfold him and back him into
the cars, and he was not at all afraid that
he would be seized witli a desire to jump
oil' when the train started. He acknowl
edged that lie had waited later than the
average man before making his initial
trip, but held that it was better late than
never, and said he expected to enjoy the
novelty as iihkIi as it lie were only 10
years old.
Mrs. Crowley Is also making her lirst
journey 011 the railroad. Like Mr.
Crow lev, all her traveling heretofore has
been by wagon, and she has never before
been hi a position to take a railroad
journey. I he couple will visit some re
lations of Mrs. Crowley's, and expect to
be gone about a month. Idaho States
man. Private Board.
I will furnish private board to a few de
siring such, at my residence on North
street, near Center. Mrs. C. li. Duck
worth. Dr. J. L. Reavls, dentist of La Grande,
is in town after a four weeks outing in
the mines. He will do some work for
some of his La Grande patients before re
turning.
I When you travel the Bourne road re
member Barnard has all the latest remedies
I for dust in the throat.
4 Through the Yllowtone. - The PoanJt C0Ildllctfd by Glis
1 iie new route via the Oregon Short Woodward on Mill street, Is hilly a
I IneKailroad and Monida, Mont., enables representation ot Its name. A visit will
NmitoiukTa-JellgHtfurtrTp tTirough lhe'convfnWyo'0-oY1WV- "'
OUR- GREAT COPPER WELT. .
No More Promising Ore Body Anywhere
Than in Eastern Oregon.
At Burkemont, five miles east of Med
ical Springs, the North American Mining
company Is doing very extensive de
velopment work, and has installed ex
pensive machinery, such as air com
pressor, Burley drills, hoisting works,
substantial houses, and have a large and
increasing payroll. There the great
upheaval of ore Is from 800 to 1000 feet
wide, and while at the surface the ore
may only assay from 4 to 8 per cer.t
copper, they are now down too feet and
have drifted eacli way from the main
shaft 40 feet, and have a body of ore 80
feet wide that carries 2o gold and copper
values. This great copper belt can easily
be traced from Burkemont to Bugle, and
is again on top at the Iron Dyke and
there It crosses Snake and enters the
Seven Devils camp.
In the vicinity of Snow Storm and Lily
White mines, near Sanger, large deposits
of copper have recently been found, the
ore frtm which shows native copper in
large quantities. On Goose creek, east
of thcNorlh American company s prop
erties, great bodies of copper have been
found.
The new fields are attracting consider
able attention from mining men with
capital, and many have gone there in
the last week or ten days and are making
a thorough investigation. Those return
ine from there give good report of their
I investigations and are of the opinion that
it Is a great copper district. They pre
I sent the need of a smelter and railroad
i facilities, and with these there they be
1 lleve the Union county copper fields will
I be a busy scene of copper mining.
The people of Grande Ronde vallev have
but a faint conception of the value of
the eastern part of this countv and Mac
1 says that the citizens of La Grande and
of the entire valley who so nobly res
ponded to expansion in raising the subsidy
, to secure the establishment of the sugar
industry here, should at once take hold en
i mase and secure the right of way and
subsidy to build a road to Medical Springs,
' and once there the Interests of the mining
Industry would take care of its further
progress, and In this way Grand Ronde
valley would secure not only the entire
trade of Union county, but would forever
settle the question of county division.
Union Scout.
SUMPTER BOTTLING WORKS
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Oprralf J In runni'illun with the
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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
GAGEN & SLOAN, PROPS.,
SUMPTER, ORE.
W. S. BOWERS
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