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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1900)
12 THEjSyiyiPTERjiyUNER. Wednesday, .September 19. .1900 5 OFFICERS rIJrtll.VIII.IS KH Mtllc(.lrrl.OlfK I'lrOJmi, WIILIb KIMMI.K fKon VI, e I'm (.in. MKr. II. W. Mll.l I.K lirburn, Oregon Sf.iflitv. W. I HI'Ulls'ON Snm lei, Oirgnn. .num. A I ("lOSS.IIinUiif Sum lir Suinp'rr, Orri: ;n f. Tii-.iv t Branch, I, I AIKI.N IJ'itrt'UtK, Oir'in SMi'filntHiJdii, J 1. DHI.NON Vimplr, Orrcnn Umpqua Mining and Milling Co Principal Office, Sumpter, Oregon Branch Office, Roseburg, Oregon CAPITAL STOCK $150,000 1,000,000 clwe of ParValueoftsCts. Each. Fully Paid and Non-Assessable PROPERTY: THE COMPANY owns four claims, all adjoining, and a mill site, being 6000 feet in length by 600 feet wide, and the mill site covers five acres. The claims are known as Chance, American. Gold Hill and Grand Prize, and the American mill site. These claims are lo cated about live miles west from Sumpter, Baker County, Oregon, and are reached by a good wagon road and are surrounded by developed properties, such as the famous Ibex, Maiden's Dream, Evening Star, and several other promising mines. There is ample timber and water on the ground for all mining purposes. DEVELOPMENT. Since March, 1900, the company has done over 500 feet of miscellaneous work, to determine the best method of permanent mining and have reached a depth of over 160 feet, where values have varied from ten to several hundred dollars per ton, with better than $1$ AVERAGE VALUES. PLANS FOR THE FUTURE IT HlilNO a foregone cnnchision from the development already made that the Umpqua group of mines, with proper opening, can he made one of the dividend payers of Oregon, and that rich ore bodies can he opened up with a reasonable expenditure of money In a short space of time, and the management being exceedingly anxious to push the development work, by either drifting or sinking Irom the end of cross-cut tunnel or by running a crosscut li.vver down onthe creek, (which will be short) then dtilt on vein and depth will be gained as work proceeds, and ore will be taken out at all times. In order to raise the money re quired for immediate use, the company has decided to place for sale 50,000 SHARES OF THE STOCK AT 3 CENTS PER SHARE to such persons as may be offered an opportunity to purchase. The tight to witltdraw the stock from sale without notice Is how ever reserved by the company. HOW TO OBTAIN THE STOCK. Applications for stock of the Umpqua Mining & Milling Com pany should be addressed to Secretary W. F. BiiKUSON. or Treasurer A. P. Goss, Bank of Sumpter, Sumpter, Ore. Any person purchasing stock will at all times have access to the mines by making application to the general manager, and all books and reports of the company will at all times be subject to examination. MILL FOR THE ALMA. M. D. Mahoney Interviewed In Portland on Eattern Oregon Gold Field. M. I). Mahoney, our ol the owners of the Mm. i quart mine near (iranite, was at the "rtkins tliis week. His company is now engaged in extensive development wotk, lie said, and a (Vjo-fnot tunnel Is being run to lap the main boby of ore at a considerable distance below the surface. A live-stamp mill will he erected on the property this fall. The ore, he says, is low giade, and will hardly bear freight charges to distant points, and so the best way is to arrange for treating it at home. "We hear a good deal of tw rock," he said, "but such rock is not plentiful enough to load height tral'is, though io rock is abundant, and will yield mine owners large returns when once means are secured lor mining and milling it cheaply." He looks tor a very busy season In that p.i-t ot eastern Oregon this fall and win ter, as a great deal of development work V is being done and development Is what tells in a quart, mining region. "When once mines are opened up, so that large quantities ol even low grade ore are in sight," he said, "there will be no lack ot capital to operate them. "A great deal ol prospecting has been done the past summer In the Itlue Mount ains, and prospecting there is considerable ol a picnic, the weather being delightful and grass and water being abundant. No nicer outing could be thought of for the c ty man, though the prospector can make hard wotk of It II he tries." Portland Mining Review. Business Good at Ontario. Mr. and Mrs. A. II. Cox, of Ontario, '. are visiting Mrs. Cox's parents, Rev. and Mrs. W. S.'Holt, )5o Fourteenth street,- " this city. Mr. Co.x Is In charge of the hardware department of the trading store of the Oregon I'otwarding company, of which l-'red .1. Keisel, the well known multi-millionaire, of Ogden, Utah, Is the sole owner. Mr. Co.x Is a Portfauder and Is well known here. He says that On tario is a lively trading town, and lots of money circulates. Ranchmen buy as high as f iooo bills of goods. Ontario had re ceived about 2,000,000 pounds of wool this season, and has shipped over 400 carloads of line cattle. No more wool will move until after the election. In case Hryan should be elected the stock grazing country of Malheur, Mr. Co.x says, would be paralyed. Irrigation in Malheur county works very successfully and make (he unproductive sections blos som profusely. Water is brought by an Irrigation canal from the Owyhee river, 10 miles south of Ontario. The popula tion of the town Is 450. Builders and carpenters cannot supply the demand tor houses rapidly enough, as there is a steady increase In the population. Along , the Snake river, In Malheur county, there Is a rich fruit region. One company ships as much as ten car loads of prunes from Ontario every year. Where irrigation Is applied three and four crops of alfalfa are cut. Portland Telegram. Dredfer foe tb John Day. On Monday morning a force of men went to work on the ground ol the Pome roy Dredging company, about two miles I below; John Day. The men were sent in by Mr. Pomeroy, who will arrive from his I home In Portland next Saturday, to sup erintend the work and get things In readi ness for a larger dredging plant. The old inichlue was found to be Inadequate to . handle the gravel from the 'river bed, so' the company decided to replace it with larger machinery. It is not known deliu-1 itely whether dredging operations will be commenced this fall, but the -plant will be out up and everything put hi raadiness to commence active work in the spring. Grant County'News. 1 SNAKF. RIVER PLACERS. head of water for races. It was the end where the gold is saved that was most interesting, and it was here that tile skill of the experienced miner was most apparent. No elevating is done, the sluice tlume being laid on the bedrock, Hungarian fifties being used on the sluices. Modus Operandi of Getting Out Gold With Dredgers. Placer mining on Snake river has been given a decided impetus by success ol the big hydraulic plant being operated by the After passing through the grizzly, which Salmon River Mining and Development screens out the larger rock at the end 01 company at Salem bar, thirty miles above the sluice, the gravel passes through the l.ewiston on the Snake river, and at least , under current, thence to burlay covered two other companies are tunning to work tables, and lastly through a long string of other bars. The Spokane Review correspondent vis ited Salem bar this week and carefully e. .1 mined the bar and methods followed in rock riftled sluices. Oregon Wonder Improving With Depth. Elmer Cleaver, who Is in charge of the exploding the time-worn mining axiom 'm'ents being made on the Oregon that you cannot save Snake river gold. There is 110 secrecy as to the manner in which the gold is saved and no new patent gold machines are emptoyed jnst practi cal judgment and the usual methods of hydraulic mining. The only real new de parture Is In securing water supply and pressure, there being no natural source of such supply except theSnake river, which is several feet lower than bedrock 011 the bar. The water of the river Is forced by steam pumps to a penstock high up on the hillside above the bar and from that point carried by tlume and ditch to the pressure box and giant at the diggings. The bar is about a mile long and of varying width, comprising about 140 acres in all. The bar averages about $0 cents to the squaie yard, which has been dem onstrated by actual tests. The pumping plant consists of one 120 horse power boiler and one 60 horse power Wonder quart, mine on the head of Indian creek, spent a few days in Canyon City this week, in company with his attorney, attending to the. business of the company. To an Eagle reporter he stated that the tunnel on the Oregon Wonder hid been driven to the depth of fifty feet, and work on the same was being pusheJ as rapidly a's possible with three shifts. Careful assays made of the ore taken from the ledge indicate that thus far the ledge con tinues to hold its values, and it (lie same lasts to the extent of the development work projected at present, the Oregon Wonder is one of the greatest properties in the world. It can be traced for sixteen miles and carries a surface width of sev eral hundred feet. The Cleaver company are also owners of a copper group on the divide between the head of Canyon creek and Indian creek that is showing well and promises to be one ot the best properties of Its kind In the west. While attending fit tti hlldllACC flff-alrC rtf lllc .nniiv.itii Mr engine, one Sm ih-Vaile duplex PiimplCI(aver ,s IBaWll(t a fll,Kl,0I1 ? oc having ,4 inch vlinders and 8 Inch d s-. ,fS 0 dj , h charge and forcing 1200 gallons lr mli.j , Bue ute to the upper penstock, and one No. 8 - Erie submerged centrifugal having a ca- j "The Portland", conducted by Gus padty of i oo gallons per minute. This , Woodward on Mill street, Is fullya water is .thrown to a point 50 feet above representation of its name. A visit will the river level and furnishes an additional ' convince you of this. .