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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1900)
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When a Dr. Sanden Belt is purchased, my advice is included free uniil a cure is effected. The Dr. Sanden Electric Belt is particularly recommended for weaknesses of men which result from excesses, and it has a special attachment to meet that condition. However, it is used with other attachments, by women as well as men, for Rheumatism, Lame Back. Nervousness, etc. The new antiseptic disc covers of my invention imitated of course can be used on the Sanden Belt only, and absolutely prevents any burning by the current. Drop in at my office for free consultation, or write for free book, sent sealed by mail. Dept. 19, Russell Bldg. DR. A. T. SANDEN, Portland, Oregon AN ISOLATED EMPIRE. John Day Valley the Finest Country Out of Doors. If you nrr so fortunate as to Ret .1 sent on the box with the stage driver, the run purposes. Mere, however, the foot hills owners know they have a Reed thine and arc heavily timbered, the valley, from one ' don't want to self. All the land between to eight miles in width, is practically prairie laud, and from every Kulch in the mountains come streams of water with which to irrigate the pregnant soil. This is preeminently a stock country, the cattle being fed in winter. Hay is, therefore, the principal crop; though, as the altitude averages only about 2000 feet above sea level, anything can be grown here. Considerable grain is grown there, but not enough wheat to supply the local Irom Flynn Station down to Prairie City, demand for Hour. There is a flour mill In John Day valley, a distance of seven r eight miles, which Is made In the hour between seven and eight o'clock in the morning, is so delightful a ride that one's good humor Is almost restored. The bad temper of the traveler Is occasioned by the inexcusably Inconvenient schedule on which stages run between Sumpter and Canyon City. It Is n spiritual pleasure difficult to de ribe which one experiences who lives in the high altitudes of the Blue mountains, where grow no flowers, or fruits, or vege- near Prairie City run by natural warm water power that could be operated the year around, but It cannot secure wheat enough to keep it running half the time. Flour and pork products are brought in from the outside by every train of freight wagons. Peaches and grapes are the Prairie City and Canyon City, a distance of sixteen miles, is owned by live men. In other portions of the valley are small ranches of 160 acres. Hut these men have been in tills out of the world locality from twenty to thirty and more years, and have earned all they own. It was the placer gold tound hereabouts in the early '60s that brought the crowds into this country. When the richest of the diggings were washed out, the Im patient, migratory miners drifted else where, and left ground richer than any they had found for those who followed. Rut these later comers did not take their dust direct from the ground. They con verted the hay into beef and this into gold a slow, menial process that your miner man despises. Placer mining is only fruits which are not raised there, and I still a .profitable, industry all through this there Is no reason, so far as climate and i section, but the big pay properties are now soil is concerned, why they are not on the j owned by a few men and gravel washing Is no more the universal occupation. list of products. Mr. McHaley, one of the largest stock-, Only last week a rich strike was made in men and farmers in this revinn. s.ivs that an old too-foot drift In Secesh eulfh. - -, ... .-- . - - - -- . -.,- , --. tables, to swiftly descend at such early up to the present year he has had to buy Rut as Is the history with all placer hour Into this fertile valley, where all I hay for his stock during the winter, but camps, this is being followed by quartz flourish luxuriantly; where every farm that last winter lie had hay left over. ( mining. This evolution has been slower house Is surrounded by prolific grainfields Most of his neighbors were in the same (here than most any where else on earth; iind rich meadnwlands; Is embowered in condition. Prices for horses and cattle for three or four reasons not necessary to liult trees heavily l.iden with red apples, have been so high during the past two or dilate on here, but principally on account tuirple plums and yellow pears, inter- three years that much of the stock has 1 of Its isolated position on the map of an mingled with 11 riotous profusion of flow-' been sold; until now there Is not enough (.alleged civilized state. For some years, m and vegetables. Then, too, on every left to eat the hay raised tills year. The. however, quartz mining has been in prog-j natural result will follow, that ne.t year ' ress, that primative reduction plant, the ' more wheat and rye will be planted, and arastra, being used to extract tlie gold. In. less Hour and hog meat will be shipped this way several mines in DKie moim-l in. tains hive been opened to a more or less ' The only objection which a newcomer limited extent and considerable Rold taken can find to the country, as lie stands on .out. Here, known as the Quartburg Mil sUe thous mds of cattle are grazing all of which means plentiful prosperity. The John Day valley Is the finest country out ot doors. It possesses a combination o' advantages which render it the neatest approach to perlectlon as a fanning country that can be found on the one of the high bluffs and casts his cov district, some miles north of Prairie City continent. It has plenty of wood and etous eye down the beautitul valley, sur-'and directly tributary to tint camp, several water, convenient to agricultural and veys In vision this land ot every promise rich strikes have been made this season, glaring l.ind. The usual couditlod is, fulfilled, is that he can't get any of it for the absence of timber, or else the long,, himself. It Is practically all taken up and l.iboilous task of dealing land for farm under a high state of cultivation. The one by United States Marshal Houser in In his Standard group. As a matter of fact, there is no longer any doubt but what this is a great mining district. To the south from Prairie City, from eight to twelve miles, according to the peculiarities of your informant, seven or eight thousand feet up Strawberry butte, i that remarkable mineral formation, prop erly called the Oregon Wonder. Briefly stated, there is a well defined ledge, at one point 600 feet In width, which has been traced a distance of twelve miles. On Its east end outcropplngs stand up fully 100 feet, which can be seen with glasses from Prairie City. This is directly east of a big bare spot on the mountain, known as Horsethlef Flat, the name being derived from the fact that there horsethieves In the early days hid and grazed their stolen stock while collecting a bunch to be driven over the range. Just above this outcrop ing on the Wonder, are two patches of snow, that from a distance of ten miles look to be about the size of plates, but In reality are many acres in extent, and 'are sources or snow-fed mountain streams that never run dry. The Oregon Wonder has been turned down as a mining proposition by alleged experts; but, as every one knows, that cuts 110 figure in the case of a mere pros pect, with anyone except an eastern fish. There is not a great producing mine in the West today but what has been con demned by some mining expert. Any way, P. F. Morey, of Portland, a man possessing ample means, has gone to work intelligently to find out what is there. He is driving a ico-foot tunnel just below the high outcropping, which will give a depth of more than 250 feet. A test mill is bring installed and the value of the rock at every foot advanced will be known. The whole ledge is free milling and carries 'from a trace to S19. None of it is barren. If it averages two or three dollars a ton the Cleaver Rrothers and their associates will have the greatest mine on earth. It will also be the making of Prairie City, which they also own '