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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1901)
Wednesday, March 27. 1901 OFFICERS Capital $500,000; In 1,000,000 shares of the par value of Fifty Cents Each. Treasury Stock 400,000 shares. Grizzly Gold Mining Company John J. Pi-nhali-, President (On. Mcr. Hunker Hill OoU Mng Co.) SUMPTLK, OklOOM AI.IIKKT Gl-ISI-H, Vice-President (I'loilJcrt ClilcTisIl.ink) Hakim Un liUGI-NI: SPUNKY, H. C. PI-NTI.ANI), Treasurer Secretary FULL PAID AND NON-AS-SESSABLE THE SUMPTER MINER OPPORTUNITY -b. Treasury Stock at TEN CENTS Per Share CASH BASIS All Cash Purchasers Receive a Discount of Five Per Cont on the Investment. INSTALLMENT BASIS Purchasers May Seoure Stock in Blocks of 1000 Shares and Upwards, Payable 10 Per Cent Down and 10 Per Cent Each Month Until Paid. GRIZZLY STOCK Affords an opportunity for profitable investment that cannot be equaled in the Sumpter District. The mine is now being actively operated and has reached a degree of development practically assuring the stability of the mine. The ledge, carrying high values in gold, copper and silver, is over 40 feet in width. Work is being rapidly pushed, tunnelling and sinking on the ledge, blocking out ore and adding to the pay dumps, and it may be expected that the mine will be a producer and the company a dividend payer at an early date. Every dollar realized by the company from the sale of treasury stock is being used for improving the property. The sale of stock will be con tinued until the mine is a producer,. As development progresses the price of stock will be advanced. Secure this stock now at 10 cents. That it will be worth its par value within 12 months is a conservate es timate. Subscriptions for stock may be sent to the company direct, or to the First Bankcf Sumpter, Sumpter, Ore. For Prospectus and Further Information, address, Grizzly Gold Mining. Co., Sumpter, Ore. RCFCHCNCCS: Tmmi Uanm or 8uMiirn Sumpmih, One CmiiN Hank Banin Cut Ohioon LARGEST GOLD NUGGET. Pound While Digging a Grave in California fn 1851. I he largest yold minuet ever lound was discovered by Oliver Mai tin In 1.S51 In the ( iiily mnuiit.iius in Cillforui 1. .Martin, it the time, was a dissolute young in. in, given In itrin It iitK. til gambling. He spent his lime .inning the mining camps 11I Yub.i, I uolumme, l-.l Uoradoaud Cal am. is counties. I he story ot the lindlug ot the nugget strikingly resembles a fairy tale, but it is vouched lor as truth by I'lioiii.is .1. Hurley,.! well Known Callloi uia mining man. One night In November, 1N5.1, Martin and a companion, .tit It 11 l-'owier, were asleep in .1 deserted 111111111); cabin In a lonely spot, when a llooJ liom a cloud butst canied away the c.iblu and its occu pants, wreikiiig the log structure and diowuliiK I'owlcr. M. 11 tin escaped by dinning to the branches hi a tree top, whete he leni.ilued till the wateis sub sided. u the morning he louud the dead body ot l-ouler only a shoit distance from wliere they had sought test the night be fore. Sr. lulling thiough the deserted diggings he piocuied an old pick and proceeded to dig a gtae lor his dead comrade. He had dug down in the sandy soil at the base ol a cliff but twoleel, when his pick eucounteied what he at tirst supposed was a boulder. Scraping awavthe dirt with his shovel his eyes felt on a chunk of dull yellow metal as large as a call's head. I'he abrasion made by the pick letlected back the rich luster of polished gold. It was some time, however, before he could convince him self that the entire mass was really gold. He could not carry the piece, m carefully secreting It he hastened with the news of his find to Camp Corona to obtain help to bring In the treasure. While the account of the drowning was easily cred Ited, no one believed the nugget story. I I'ln.illy a miner consented to return with Martin, being particular to explain to the test nf the miners, however, that he was going to help bury l-'owler's body, and not to bring in any fairy gold. On ar riving at the spot and being shown the big mass of pure gold the miner could hardly speak for astonishment. Mailln and Ills new companion staked oil claims at once and then, after burying Powier's body, started back to camp with the big nugget, which, when weighed, tipped the scales at over 80 pounds. As might Pe supposed, a grand rush was made for the gulch and claims staked up and down it for miles, but although the the stream was carefully prospected, little else of value was ever obtained. Martin's hud was exhibited through a great many mining camps and towns of California, the owner receiving something like 510,000 from such exhibitions. He afterwards sold the nugget for 522,700, its actual value. In view of all the circumstances attend ing the discovery of the big nugget, Mar tin believed he had been guided by the hand of Providence therein, for some hid den and mysterious purpose. The Idea grew on him, resulting in about the first serious thoughts he ever had. He ijult drinking, gave up his dissolute habits and I companions, and began upon a mining i career that eventually made him a million aire. Exchange. Oregon Valley An Uninhibited Pandit. "I know a valley in Oregon," said D. II. Stearns, who is stopping at the Van Ness, "ihat has a river as large as the Wluooski (lowing out of it and mountains , higher than Mount Mansfield all around It, except at a narrow pass through which I the river escapes. Above the pass the j valley widens out so that there is at least twenty thousand acres of level bottom, one hundred and fifty thousand acres of treeless slopes and one hundred thousand acres of timbered land up next to the snow Hue. 'I'he soil Is rich and capable of pro ducing 40 bushels of wheat to the acre. The climate is mild enough to produce semi-tropical Irtiits. 1 he summer Is long enough to admit ot two or three crops to the season on the same laud. At least twenty unnamed mountain streams make up the river and all are full of trout. In all this valley there Is but one solitary claimant of laud, and, his holding does 1 not amount to 1000 acres. He has cattle, horses and sheep enough to block a hun , dred farms he would gladly sell. It is easily practical for one hundred farmers and the school teachers, ministers, mer ' chants and mechanics that make up a bal anced community to go Into that valley 1 with all their Industries and in one year establish themselves in permanent pros perity, where they will never again see lightning's Hash or feel the blizzard's blast. The soil must be cultivated, the valley must remain as it is until an organ ized colony goes and takes possession of it. One or two farmers alone would find the rancher and his cattle an obstacle, but he would welcome the hundred that could take over the stock that ranges upon the government land, finding its own food the year round. The government gives the land free and the settlers do the rest. Burlington (Vermont) l-'rec Press. Le&sons In Lace. Mrs. Marsh, next door to MlNI-K office, will give practical instructions In lace work. Materials and hundreds of pat terns to select trom. The Capital hotel, under the manage ment of .Mrs. Tedrowe, serves special Sunday dinners, families should take 1 advantage of this. Kest table board In ' town. Try it. Miss Richardson, the mllllner.announces j that from the latter part of this week she I will h rnnctintlv rliilnn nu I hats every few days throughout the season. D.&R.G.R.R. Scenic Line of the World Kuvoiitc TniiiM-oiitiiicntiil Kotito lit'twoon tlio Northwest mill nil Points KnM. Choice of two routes through the Fiimou." ROCKY MOUNTAIN SCENERY mni four routes cast of Puclilo nnd Denver. All pii-ongors grunted a days stop over in the Mormon Capitol or any where between Ogden and Denver. Personally conducted tourist excurs ions to OMAHA, KANSAS CITY, ST. LOUIS CHICAGO AND THE EAST. For tiekets or any information re garding routes, etc.," or for descriptive advertising matter, call on agenta of Oregon Railway and Navigation Cd., Oregon Short Line or Southern Posifio companies. S. K. HOOPER G. P. & T. A., Denver, Col. It. C. NICHOL, Gen'l Agt. Portland, Oregon.
