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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1901)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, March 27, 1901 BLIND LEDCE IN GIPSY KING Cut by Tunnel When Twenty Three Feet In. President Barthnlf, nf the Gipsv Klnc Gold Mlnrs company, returned Sunday from tli.it property, where he had been to lay out the tunnel work contracted (or early last ueel. He had already selected the point at , which to hei'iu driving. It Is about 200 feet Irom the creek end o( the claim, af fords ample and convenient dumping ground am! the tunnel will gain a depth nf lillern hnlies to every two feel driven. It will cut the vein in the shortest pnssl-, hie dist.iuce, about sixty feet, at nearly a right angle, When Mr. Barthnlf left the mine Sun day altentoon, the tunnel was in twenty three leet and another blind ledge had been cut. It has well ilelmed walls and about three feel of ore, some ot which he broiK'ht to town. It is enthrly different Irom the main ledge, lor which lie Is driv ing, being white iii.nl carrying very lit tle p rites ol ir At this writing tin as-' says have been made, 'it its value can not be stated. Just deyond this ledge the workmen penetrated a body of verv hard, dark inloted gneiss, on which comparative slow ptogtess will be made. Ol iiiurse, it cannot be stated how thick this forma-1 lion Is. On the livening Star, 1400 feet . itw.-iVi thete was twenty-live leet of it. I here is still mikhsnnw at that high Altitude, nearly 7000 feet. Union County Mineral Dtpouli, James I'ennell, the veteran miner and prospector, was In the city this week, having tetiirued from a visit to some of his mineral propettles. .Mi. Pennell says he knows nf one of the largest copper de posits in the west, bring located near the headwaters of C'ltheiine creek, lie is familiar with the entire mountainous country east of Union and expresses the opinion that said section is tilled with rich deposits ot copper and gold ores and it Is only a ijuestlon ot time when it will be teeming with mining industry. This view is continued by other patties who have visited that section. I he country is ipille rough and it his scarcely been seen even bv the tugged prospector. What It has hi stole lor the conimrne of the world only the Ititute tan tell, but lying as It does In the rich inlneial belt of eastern Otegon and giving evldetue of such wealth it may be almost positively stated that the Ititute will show it to he 1 1 one of the gieitrst mineral fields In the Northwest. I he country lies east of Union and is reached nv roads leading up Cathetiue cteeK Iroat this city. It affords one ot the best ttelds for prospecting in the state. Union Kepublican. Surveying Party Ltxvi Ontario. A ptess tepotl Irom Outatio, under date of Match 21, savs: "A surveying patty headed by W. I:. Camp, of Spokane, letl heie this morning for the interior. It is well equipped with cooks and supplies (or a si weeks ttlp, .Malheur lake is to be examined and the laud in certain districts put on record. A survey is to be taken of a portion of the remote Interior and plats died. The survey will give the bearing of some of the richest ore deposits in Harney and Cook counties." Till: MlNI.lt makes an off hand guess that tills Is a railroad surveying party In the inter est of people controlling the Columbia Southern. Gold (or Arts and Monty. The annual production of gold has in creased from $100,000,000 in 187) to io,ooo,ooo in 1000. The consumption of gold In the arts is estimated at from f5o,ooo,ooo to $70,000,000 a year, and this would leave a rapidly increasing amount available as use for money. Ac cording to the estimates of the United States mint bureau about $300,000,000 in gold was consumed in the arts during the decade from 1880 to 1800 and the world's production for the same period was $1,060, 000,000, thus leaving $560,000,000 avail able for the world's supply of money. Northwest Mining News. California Buyi Machinery in Spokane. An order was placed with the Edward I'. Allis company, nf Milwaukee, through their Spokane ollice, by the Mountain Copper company, limited, of Keswick, California, for machinery for a cupper converting plant, consisting of three stands of converters, blow Iiir engine, elec tee crane and all the necessary appurte nances belonging to a converting plant. It is expected that the plant will be in operation in ;bout six months. The total shipping weight of the machinery sold Is approximately 500,000 pounds. Dunphy & Gertridge's Club saloon Is the popular resort for mining and com mercial men. "rinnnnr MACHINERY BARGAIN Ten 75odh Stamps One Wlllley Concentrator One Blake Rock Breaker One 70 h. p. Boiler One 70 h. p. Hugitie Two Heudy Ore Feeders One Grizzly Two Silvered Copper Plates Pulleys, Belts, Slutting, Water Pipe, Tools, Etc. I-'. O. B. Cars Chapel Hill, N. C. Guaranteed In Good Order. Offer subject to previous sale. David Russell Carrier BOO DIVISION ST. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS GOOD THINGS TO EAT I AT E. P. Bergman & Compa'y GROCERS Mill Street, Wood's Building. A Safe Mining Investment! ? THE CRACKER SUMMIT GOLD MINING COM PANY own eight quartz claims and one placer claim and mill site in the famous Cracker Creek District, adjoining the properties of three of Eastern Oregons heaviest producing mines, namely the Col umbia, E & E and North Pole, and are but three thous and feet from the famous Golconda mine, on the same ledge as the Climax, Ohio, Cyclone and Free Coinage claims. The company owns 4500 feet of this ledge rang ing from 7 to 40 feet in width.- The vein has been opened by shafts, tunnels and open ruts for a distance of 2100 feet, showing a pay shoot 160 feet in length and 7 feet wide. A shaft has been sunk on this pay shoot 35 feet in depth, showing that values hold out and increase with depth. Samples taken from this shaft assay from 5.30 to $46.15 per ton and picked samples have assayed as high as 210.78 per ton. 1 he shaft was thoroughly sampled across its entire width of 7 feet, every $ feet for its entire depth by two reli able experts giving an average of about 10 per ton. Outside of this payshoot the average runs about 5.30 per ton. Beside this ledge the Company has three other ledges on which the assessment work only has been done showing values from 41 cents to 7 per ton. The claims are heavily timbered and well watered, having 4 small streams which flow the year round from the west vein which is a contact between slate and granite, and will furnish power enough for a 10 drill compressor. The formation is the same as all of the large mines in the neighborhood, being a black metamorphic slate; that lying next the foot wall having the appearance of quartzite. The development consists of 125 feet of tunnels, over 100 feet of shafts and about 350 feet of open cuts. The ledge can be tapped at a depth of 635 feet by a crosscut tunnel 1012 feet in length, the ore can be brought through this tunnel to the mill by gravity, thus saving expensive hoisting and pumping machinery. There is a good substantial blacksmith shop and outfit of tools on the ground and good wagon roads into the property. The officers of the company are James Clark, pres ident; Leon H. Long, vice president; George H. Lins ley, secretary and treasurer and H. W. B. Smith, gen eral manager, the above named gentlemen together with J. C. McFadden, of Walla Walla, form the board of directors. Capitalization 1,000,000 shares, par value 25 cents each, fully paid and non-assessable, with 400,000 shares in the treasury. The first issue of 50,000 shares is offered at 10 cents per share. The price of succeed ing issues will be advanced as development proceeds. Every share of the personal stock is pooled until treas ury stock reaches 50 cents per share, so that treasury stock will not be crowded out by individual offerings of personal stock, thus insuring ample funds for the treasury, every cent of which will be spent to make a producing mine of the Cracker Summit property. All checks and drafts should be made payable to George H. Linsley secretary and treasurer. For pros pectus, reports, references and general information re garding the property address Cracker Summit Gold Mining Co. H. W. B. SMITH, Manager - Box 170, Sumpter, Oregon Or, GEO. H. LINSLEY, SecrMary and Treasurer Room 80, Jamison Block, Spokane, Wash. 1