Wednesday, March 13, 1901
THE SUMPTER MINER
CONNOR CREEK MINES.
Great Activity in Both Quartz
and Placer Properties.
The Connor creek quartz and placer
mines are considered better property than
ever before, and not a man can be found
In the district who has the slightest doubt
of the camp's great future. Considerable
excitement is now prevalent in this dis
trict over a recent strike made by Charles
Aklns, manager of the Connor Creek
Mining company, whose property Is lo
cated a mile above the mouth of the creek.
A Jap in the employ of the company as a
cook was strolling down the (.reek a short
time since, and as fortune would have it,
he stopped and witli a pocket knife began
picking in the rich gravel bed of the creek,
and to the great surprise of the foreigner
the yellow metal loomed up to the naked
eye amid Its brilliancy. Mr. Aklns, who
was immediately informed of the strike,
took from a pan of dirt taken from this
spot f 109 and some cents of coarse gold,
one nugget weighing 517.82.
This valuable placer ground is owned
and operated by an Omaha company,
which has spared no work and expense to
develop this mine to its fullest extent to
ascertain its real value. This property it
an old eastern Oregon placer mine and
was sold to the Omaha people three years
ago for $20,000, and It has yielded a very
handsome revenue since its beginning.
Owing to its great success in the past the
company has just added entirely new
equipment tor future operation of the
mine.
The Connor Creek quartz mine, located
three miles up the creek, and which prop
erty has a js-stamp quartz mill, has re
sumed operations, and It Is reported that
the mill will begin crushing ore at an
early date, as there Is a large amount of
ore on the dumps and an abundance In
sight. With the advent of the Northwest
railway, and that the whistle of the loco
motive will soon be heard Is now doubted
by none, there will spring into existence
a mining camp that will astonish all not
acquainted with the prospects and bright
future of the camp.
The Gold Coast development company,
of Portland, owning valuable placer dig
gings on Burnt river, two miles above
Huntington, are perfecting the necessary
arrangements for the placing of flumes
along their property on this stream, to
operate and work the bedrock of the
river this coming spring. It is said of
this property that it Is the richest gravel
bed on Burnt rivet, and should the flumes
prove a success the company will erect a
(60,000 dredge on their property and will
operate it by elictrlclty, to be generated
from a plant on Snake river.
Pipes and giants are now being shipped
by the Powder River Mining company to
their property located at the mouth of
Powder river on the Snake. The com
pany is shaping itself so thiit it can do
development work on a more extensive
scale this spring than ever before, as the
mine is a very promising one and has al
ways yielded a handsome Income and
ample to satisfy the promoters.
Another prominent placer digging Is the
Sturgill Bar placer mlne,which has recent
ly purchased new pipes and giants for the
opening of tills rich placer ground. It Is
the Intention of the company to largely
Increase Its working force this spring as
the water supply promises to be sufficient
to support a much larger force.
The Flick Bar placer mine has been
leased by James J. Grant, who Is now
operating the ground very successfully,
having brought in with him yesterday
over f 1,100 worth of gold, the result of a
two weeks run. He reports that the
water supply was never better and has
more than sufficient to work the ground.
No startling strikes In his district have
been made of late, but several new comers
have arrived and are panning out gold
along the shore of Snake river, Dem
ocrat. . .
LAWTON NEWS NOTES.
(Horn the Sl.mJ.irJ )
J. W. Larkln, of the Courgar mine, Is
absent on a trip to Spokane. The deal
for the sale of the Cougar, which Is said
to be pending, has not yet been consum
mated. On -the 181I1 Instant the mail route will
be extended to Alamo and dally stages
will ply between Sumpter and that point,
via t.awton and Granite. In the future
the run will be all daylight and two
drivers will be required to perform the
service.
Mrs. J. 11. Robblns, Mrs. Carlson and
Edna Carlson were over Sunday from
Sumpter visiting Mr. Carlson at the Con
cord mine. Mr. Carlson will tit up a
house at the mine and move his household
belongings and family there to reside per
manently In a few days.
The new law regarding the sale of
liquors within a mile of an established
mine will have the effect of perceptibly in
creasing the number of incorporated towns
in Oregon. Alamo and Lawton will in
corporate. These mountains are becom
ing decidedly metropolitan.
As stated in last week's Standard,
Alamo will Incorporate. Attorney V. B.
Sargent was up to that burg Wednesday
preparing the preliminary measures to
that end. The new law regulating the
sale of intoxicants within a mile of a
working mine is the causr of the attempt
to assume metropolitan airs.
Indications are that the crosscut tunnel
at the Little Giant mine will soon reach
the ledge. The formation is becoming
softer and the presence ot water indicates
the near vicinity of a large fissure of some
character. As soon as the ledge is en
countered the quartz mill machinery will
be Installed and a large force of men will
be put to work In the mine and mill.
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