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THEjSyiyiPTERjiyUNER.
Wednesday, .September 19. .1900
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OFFICERS
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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. .