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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1900)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, December 19, 1900 BOISE MINING CONGRESS. Organizing to Make the Event a Perfect Success. Hie people (il Hoise .'in taking a great Interest in the mining congress to he held lliere next luly. At ;i meeting ol the general committee (nun .-ill over the state was .ii)(iinteil tn take charge of the big enterprise. In this connection the States man says: I lie initi.il ;uid prime IJr.i of the Inter-ii.-ition.'il Mining Congress is to Induce the placing in the cabinet of the United States a secretary of mines. This can lie done if the wining men of the conntiy take hold as they should not otherwise. It was pointed out that it ought Indeed lie more of a national than even a state af fair, lint still pride of country should bring us In the point of giving it such sup port as will bring the remembrance to the rnlnds of ihnsr attending for years to oine. At the coming session of the legislature, it is believed, there will be a petition pre sented Asking lor a good appropriation for this congress, principally for the collection of an exhibit ol minerals that shall be .ilisolutely comprehensive and cover every portion of the state, and this, after the meeting, to revet to the state, when a room in the state house would be set aside for its reception. It would then become a state Institution, in which every person In Idaho would lake pride, and the mining men would see that it was fully kept up. Such a movement, it is believed, will have the support ol all tne legislators, and thus great good would come to the state, ind to every dlstrkt In the state. Iheie is now no place where a person may hud such a display, lor there is not such a col lection of ores ins cling all sections. Mayor Richards and .Mine Inspector i kobs will meet on Friday evening, when additions to the committee will be made niitl such other matters attended to as llieydecmol special moment to the siu ess ol the movement. I lie meeting ol the committee set the ball lolling ai.d now it is espeded til It evrrv milling ill. ill itnl eveiv peiMin Interested III the welfare t the st. tie will Keep it in lull motion. Kocktlflltr Kock C.irrls $155 In Gold. (ieueial II. (. C.nmpsou and I). I:. Kr.isy, oltifers i the UiuKeleller .Wining company, have leturned from an Inspec tion ol the properties. I hev brought samples ol ore taken lloin the shilt .il the New l-'ri, whi. h gave rl.h lesulls. ,. ) II milium, president of the company, had an asav nude at the government nssa' ollue in Seattle from the pay streak, which went 5S gold to the ton. I'he eriieial average across the four-font ledge, taken liom a number ol assays, gives an average o( 5n 7S per ton. I lie Rocke feller mines are conceded to be among the most promising mines in the Bonanza , distilct, Incited in the t ireenhorn moun tains in eastern Oregon. Telegram. Gov. fvUckintoih Will Return to London. llon.C II. .Mackintosh has returned from a visit to I oudon. He came back via Huttr.'iiid leuialned there (or several davs. I he smoke and the high altitude affected .Mi. .Mackintosh unfavorably and he was conliued to his room while in Hutte lot lour days. He came back for the puipasr of attending the trial of the suit against the I e Hoi Mining company tor alleged commission on the sale of the assets ol that company to the British American coiporatlou. As soon as the trial is over he intends to return to Lon don. Kossland Miner. Locked Herder In and Killed 150 Sheep. I ast Sunday night, at about to o'clock, io head of sheep, belonging to J. H. King, of Mt. Vernon, were shot by un known parties, on the old Gundlasch ranch west of to.vii. It seems that the herder had retired for the night In his cabin, leaving the band of sheep in a cor ral. At about to o'clock in the evening turtles came to the cabin and fastened the door from the outside, making a prisoner of the herder. While one of the parties ; stood guard over the cabin, the others de liberately slaughtered i;o held of sheep belonging to the b ind and in ide good their escape before an alirm could be raised. The herder was awake and could hear the shooting. What motive there was for the killing Is not known. Canyon City News. LE ROI STOCK TAXATION CASE. Decision by the Washington State Su preme Court. In March of last year W. M. Mdpath, 15. I). S Hinders, Senator George Turner and l:rank Graves brought suit in the superior court to enjoin the treasurer from collecting taxes on their stock hi the Le Hoi Mining and Smelting company. It was set up In the complaint that the state ' ment of capital stock had already been ' furnished bv the nllicers of the company and th.it to asses taxes upon the individ ual holdings of the holders would practl 'cally be a double assessment. In the , lower court the plaintiffs were sustained I and the judgment is affirmed by the su preme court, as per the following dls 1 patch from Olympia, dated December to. The supreme court has handed down a i decision in the case ol W. M. Mdpath et I al, respondents, versus Spokane county, ' appelant. This action was brought from Spokane county, where the respondents had furnished the assessor with lists of their personal property for iK;8, to which the assessor added ceilain Le Hoi mining slock without the knowledge of the In dividual Spokane holders. A general de murrer was interposed hi the lower court to the complaint and overruled. Appel lant standing on the demurrer, judgment was entered for respondents, and the ap-; peal billowed. The law provides that the principal ac-, counting ollicer shall make out and de- liver to the assessor a sworn statement of his company's property for assessment. I he court holds that "the Le Hoi (Mining ; company is a domestic corporation and must be assessed under the above rule. "Section 1(171 provides that no person listing property shall be required to list i tor taxation any portion ol its capital ( stock owned by him where such compiny, being required so to do, lias listed lor as-1 sesstuent its capital stock with the auditor of tale, or as otherwise resulted under the laws of the state. "It would seem that the revenue law as shown trom the three sections supra-, prescribes a rule lor the assessment of all corpoiate property owned by domestic corporations such as under consideration here. "Judgment allirmed." Oregon Postoff'cc Statistics. The annual report of J. L. Rristow, i fourth assistant postmaster general, sets i forth the following interesting facts re garding the establishment and discontiu-' u.iuce of postotfices In this state. Oregon j now has a total of 20 presidential offices, as compared with 2) ot a year ago, one 1 being first class (Portland), seven second j class and 21 third class. In addition to these, there are now 861 fourth class otlices, an increase of 22 over the year preceding. Of this number 300 are money order otlices. During the year 51 fourth class otlices were established, 2 discon tinued and six advanced to the presiden tial class. The state through its 890 postotiices, took In during the year a total of SW,9J5 in postal receipts, or $1.45 per capita. . . Wanted A position as stationery eiiRi geer by a man of experieiiy. Address Engineer, cate I'HI: SU.MI'TI-K MlNEK. I lOTi! 1,1 AZliH.L. 1 Ki :"5-ri A A , , t ( Kj3 t ' m 1 1 B-lTiSiT.H L3 prh 1 Miw.yTv.ff'i.lTyfcrniu fmy ' i'4 i;,a"i'rauit."T zszrr jkjj list! 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