THE SUMPTER MINER
Wednesday, December 26. 1900
"GOLD NOT WORTH
A BIT A BARREL "
Georgeous Pipe Dream
Colorado Boomer.
of
"Well, gentlemen, when I was In Idaho
a number of years ago, I was of the im
pression you h.id a line state a state
where there were opportunities for Invest
ment and profit In mining but It Is all off
now. Why, the fact is, from knowledge
in my possession, I am justified in stating
that, if nil the mines In Idaho were put up
for sale at auction they couldn't be
knocked off for six .hits. Not at the pres
ent moment, hut within a week, when the
facts I will now relate to yju will be the
property of the world and when gold
will not be worth n hit a h.irrel. I n come
down to the phh of the story, and then
tell it In Its proper order I will simply
111. ike the statement.
" Ihere h.is been discovered, underly
ing the town of Glllctte,Colorado, a blan
ket of ore 3$ miles su.ti.ire In extent, and
live feet thkk, all running Jjooo or more
per ton I
" I hese arr the facts, In n nutshell.
Gillette, us you all know, Is adj iceut to
Cripple Creek, the gie.il camp, where
is t lie only deposit uf pliouolitc In the
world."
I hen John W.itson Cork stopped a mo
such tor a number of months. But the
Swede staid with it. When he got down
too feet he struck phonolite and f 3000
per ton told. He was crazy, for a moment,
but then got dumb, and has so remained
since. Meanwhile he continued his Inves
tigations. The ore was determined to be
five feet thick. When he had gone through
this in the original shaft he began sinking
others, having obtained financial aid by
the showing made.
"Now It Is absolutely determined that
this blanket is 35 square miles in extent,
and of an average depth of five feet, never
getting less. This may seem strange to
you, and especially that so tremendous
news has not been made public. The fact
is the people owning the property have
not dared to state the facts, but I know
that within the next three or four days the
Associated Press will have It and give it
to the world. When it is made public
there will no longer be a market for gold,
except for the cheaper kinds of jewelry,
for trinkets and baubles and such kinds of !
jlmcracks. Hut as for money, it will not
be used as such, because it will be too
common. With such a deposit of gold It
seems reasonable that one as l.irge of other
metals will be discovered somewhere In
the world, so that we will be able to have
neither as a money medium. Thank God
they don't mine paper, so we can have a
money, and one in which there can be no
such sensational deterioration as there
will presently be In gold.
"Since the absolute determination of
the facts as I hive related them, John
II iys Hammond has invested in 585,000,-
ooowoithof properties lnth.it section.
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ment lor 11 hie ith and to see in what man-1 P N tiere ostensively to look over the
tier the listeners h.id l.ikeu the statement. (impendence mine and I believe tie lias
It was given in the presence of :i number Kivnl ,,.,t MIC, ., i,:ic eye oraer to di
of mining men In the rotunda of the ml .mention (rui this other and greater
Ovetl ind hotel Sund ly evening just after proposition. He knows lie has the d-posit
dinner, and the author had enjoyed the ' r ia (fm which all others, the world
meal heartily and was sitting smoking
one of tli it hotel's best Ugars. His aud
itors gasped. Hut one man spoke lor
several moments, and he had the hardi
hood to suggest tli.it there was a defined
deposit ol phonolite within live miles of
Boise. Cork simply squelched him with
a look, and then preceeded:
" There is no such tiling as phonolite
outside of Cripple Creek or the adjoining
section. It is a gold bearing material
simply, and from what I know it is the
material In which the gold of centuries
has deposited, making the greatest blank
et ledge the world has ever known and
greater than the dreams of even the
ancients, who to me seem to have been
more avarliious than the people of a later
day.
The story of the discovery is this: A
Swede came to Cripple Creek a couple of
years ago, and looked about a bit for a
chamr to get to work. He had some
money, and could not secure work be-
over, have come, and it is a cinch on
gold."
I hen the story teller wafted Into the
darkness of the night and then the lis-'
teuers began figuring. Based upon the
usual estimates on ore there would be here
2,787,060,000 tons of ore, and at 3,000'
per ton would beworthM, 363,80,000,000. '
I hat amount of money would easily pay
all the debts of the world, and give the in
habitants each a nice bank account. It
would put us ail on easy street. The gen
tlemen who listened to this story became
convinced It was of a wonderful thing
but they determined that It was a shame
that only a Swede and John Hays Ham
mond were to get the gold. Boise States
man. BtUlcy-Elkhorn Mill Will Resume.
The Haisley-Elkhorn mill, which has
been underline needed repairs for the
past two or three weeks, will resume
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OREGON
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cause he had never been in a mine in Ills operations next week. The machinery
life, and had not the least knowledge of 1 )as received a complete overhauling and
the simplest portion of the work. So, dls-1 s m,w , ie C0nj,0l, for C0n,llU0U8
courageo in mis, ue tnou 4111 lie would
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AKCR CITV, ORCOON
buy a farm and go to raising truck, or
something of tint nature. He had some
money. He was around town sK months
or so, and being rather shrewd, soon
learned all he wanted to know of mining.
He noted that a great number of people
had sunk shafts and found such ore as to
make them rlt.li. It was, to him, simply
a question ot HkU or chance. One morn
1'iiS lie begin buying provisions, and
when questioned stated lie h.id determined
to go into mining for a business and thus
make a fortune. Asked where his prop
erty was, he-said lie had none, but that
he'd tuid v.it.int ground somewhere, and
work it. So lie st itted out, reached the
top of the pi itrau west of Clippie Creek
and found tills had 110 locations whatever.
run. The mine, which is the oldest con-1
tluuous producer in Baker county, never
looked more promising than at present.
Work has been prosecuted steadily dur-'
lug the temporary shut down of the mill,
blocking out a large body of high grade
ore. A new station has been made in the '
deep sinking shaft and the hoisting ma-
chinery Is now operating to perfection. A
Democrat reporter vMtr-J the camp re
cently and noted many Improvements that
had been made during the past season,
probably the most important of which was
the road to the mine. It has been made
double Its former width, so that teams can
pass eachother at any point, and is now
one of the tinest mountain roads in the 1
west. Sleighs are now run from the old
Bobbins mill at the foot of the mountain I
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HOUSE
.Baker City, Ore.
NOTHING IN EASTERN
OREGON TO SURPASS
IT ... ALL KINDS SHELL
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It was believed tv all mliihii! men to be
batten. But It was good enough for the to the BaisleyElkhoru mine. Mr. Geo.
Swede, and lie set his stakes on the level L. Whitaker, superintendent of the mine,
and lrg.'iu sinking a sh itt, I who has been on a visit to his home in
"He lilted men, good miners, and began
active and large work, 1 he people of that
section made it a standing joke, and it was
Norwich, Connecticut, for the past two
or three weeks, will return about the first
of the year. Democrat.
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George W. Weigand... ;
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