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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1901)
Wednesday, April 10, 1901 IO THE SUMPTER MINER CONSERVATIVE MINING INVESTMENT! LIBERTY BELL CONSOLIDATED MINES COMPANY own four quartz claims in the Alamo division of the famous Red Boy district, one half mile from the town of Alamo, in Grant County, Oregon. In the very heart of possibly the Greatest Mineral Zone in all the world, surrounded by such well known operating properties as the Bonanza, Strassburg, Red Boy, Inter Mountain, Cougar, Concord, Alamo and Quebec. The claims are well timbered and watered. Geological formation argellite and porphyry. Character of ore simple silicious quartz, sixty per cent free milling, the remaining values concentrating 50 in one. Three distinct well defined veins can be traced for a distance of 1000 feet on the sur face, averaging from 14 to 30 feet between walls, giving 7.20 per ton on surface. Numerous open cuts, adits, tunnels and cross country trenches thoroughly prospect the width and value of the ledges. ' Pan samples taken from various test pits on the surface, never fail to yield a fine pros pect in free gold, the assay value giving as high as $216 per ton in gold. The Strassburg group, which adjoins the The proceeds from the sale of 200,000 shares properly expended in developing the mines and purchasing milling plant, will enable the Liberty Bell to pay $30,000 monthly. All checks and drafts should be made payable to R. H. Miller, Treasurer, who is Cashier of the First Bank of Sumpter. For prospectus, reports and general information regarding the property, address, Liberty Bell Consolidated Mines Co. 1 Liberty Bell on the north and east, in driv ing a cross cut to tap their main lead at a depth of 500 feet, have cut two blind ledges 14 and 19 feet in width only 190 feet from our side line, coursing southwest through three of the Liberty Bell claims. Capitalization, 1,000,000 shares, par value $1 each, fully paid and non-assessable, 400 000 shares in the treasury. The first issue of 100,000 shares is offered at 25 cents per share. Price of second, issue will be advanced to FIFTY CENTS. C. C. B ASCI IE, President J. G. Hurt, Secretary Sumpter, Oregon GOHS AGAINST THE GOLCONDA. J. T. Hnclish Musi Pay lor Wood Cut from a'Thctr Claim." Judge Bellinger, ut the United States DM lie I court, handed down opinions this iiiiiriiliu'. In tlii-' cases of the United States against the liuLondi Mining lompany and alio against J. I'. English, in reference to the taking ot timber Irom public lands for the purpose of tucl, In whkli he found the defendants li.id wrongfully taken the lim ber, and should he assessed the value of the timber In the tiee. Moth opinions weie the same, the ac tion In the c.ise against English being to recover 1684 cords ol wood alleged to have been unlaw lull y cut upon the public do main and used in the smeller of the Gob conda mine, in eastern Oregon. The first defense was that the wood was cut from placer mining claims owned by the defendant, preparatory to working the claim, and the second that the dcleiidant would have the right to take from the public domain wood necessary for the furnaces in the conduct of the smelling business. As to the lirst defense, Judge Bellinger declared that lie was satisfied the defend ant company was not the owner of the claim in good faith, and little more than in pretense. The deleuse also based Its claim upon an act passed In 1878, authorizing the citizens of Colorado, Nevada and other territories to fell ami remove timber on the public domain, but the court passed this by, saying it did not refer to Oregon. "It Is clear, I think," said Judge Bel linger, "that the taking ot the timber was not to improve the land. It would seem from the construction given to tills statute, that the act of the defendant Is within neither the provision which authorizes the taking of timber, nor the prohibition of the section which makes taking the tint . er a crime. In other words, the timber in tliis case was not cut for export or sale; nor was it taken by the miners for neces sary support or Improvements. Never theless, I am of the opinion that the sec tion must be given such a construction as will prohibit the taking of timber from adjacent public laud bv a miner, or agri culturalist, In any case not within the I proviso in tliis section." I The action of the defendant was termed ! as wilful, and damages were assessed at 1 the value of the timber, 50 cents a cord. Portland Telegram. ! "MlneM7RLbbr:;;jpsinn Utah. j There has been found in Utah a large deposit of a curious substance, which so 1 far as Is known, exists in no other place i in the world, and to which the name of I "mineral rubber, has been applied. It is a semi-elastic substance similar to elaler- ite. The India Rubber World states that a prominent rubber house of Boston has ' made extensive tests of it and now offers it to the trade as a substitute for rubber 1 In cheaper grades of goods. This mineral rubber, under qualitative analysis, shows , Itself to be a pure hydro-carbon, the mole . cules of which are built up In series pre- 1 clstlv similar to those ot crude rubber. It ' Is wholly neutral, free from sulphur and j adds. An interesting point about tills re ' markable substance Is that the melting 1 point, hardness, ductility and resistance of 1 the product can be regulated at will, points of great importance when the wide range of rubber compounds is considered. J Up to the present its use lias been con- lined to roots niul stipes, Put It lias even been tried for pure gum goods, such as elastic bands. Vulcanized samples of goods made of reclaimed rubber and min eral rubber, and of a great variety of rub ber compounds, where from is to 20 per cent of crude rubber has been taken out and mineral rubber substituted, have been tisted without showing any apparent loss either In elasticity or durability. Exchange. FREE MUSIC HALL FINE ..CLUB. ROOMS Courteous Treatment to All THE Sullivan House F. L. SULLIVAN, Manager Best Liquors & Cigars PRIVATE ROOMS RESTAURANT SUMPTER, OREGON Corner Crachir ind CrinlU SU. NEW BOWLING ALLEY Electrical Mining Aparatus of Every DescrittDi Of Stanley Electric Company ami Northern Electric Company inun iilitctuiv, tor (lirelit or ultcrnmiug work. Dynamos, Motors, Hoists, Tram Cars in ihet, everything necessary fur complete light timl power plants. Esti mates niul tieciliciitions furnished. Correspondence solicited. Addre&i nil communications to A. WAL-CH, Box W Sumpter, Ore.