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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1901)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, May 8, 1901 The Demand For Sumpter Gold Properties 8 TO I INVESTORS I TO I MINE OWNERS 1 Lo j?iasSfgfs&i&gfS IS GREATER ATTHIS PERIOD THAN IN ALL THE HISTORY OF EASTERN OREGON MINING EXPERIENCE. We want any number of legitimate mining propositions that will bear the very strictest examination. Dividend paying mines, partially developed mines with ore reserves, prospects with merit are asked for. In listing properties with us, state specifically cash and bond price. Jt j J J CONFINE DESCRIPTION OF DE VELOPMENT, CHARACTER OF ORE AND SIZE OF VEINS TO FACTS. ADDRESS OR CALL ON RE POESfDEXTER & CO. MINING BROKERS The Oldest Operators in the Camp References Any Bank in Baker County Basche Block, Sumpter, Ore. WORK AT THE MAC'S LUCK. This Property I Being Developed by a Mil waukrc Company. Mounted on Hie hurricane deck of five spirited cayuses Sunday morning last, Otto lleilocker, l)lcl Nrlll, l:. A. 13. Starr, I:. II. Horner and C. S. McLaln started fur the Mac's l.uck Gold Mining company's claims on Deer creek, four miles from town. The first three men Honed are stockholders in this property and the oilier two probably would be If their conclusion ol Its merits counted for anything and the company was offering its tieasuiy stock for sale. Regarding this latter point, however, the Mac's Luck company has been for tun. lie in nuking a wise deal, by arrant lug with tile Milwaukee Mutual Mining & Development company, to which has been given an option on all of the treasury Mutes and .150,000 of the promoter's shires, and placing the actual develop inent of this ptoperty In the Development company's hands; of course, under a guarantee to execute certain work there on. Hv this means, work was com menced several weeks ago and has since been carried 011 steadily, so that Sunday, when the property was visited, It was found that fifty feet of tunnel had been driven, In the face of which two and a half feel of splendid ore, blue quartz, Is shown and which It Is thought will as say well, though at this time the returns hid not been learned from the local as sayer. Bverythlng is being done in a miner-like fashion, and no expense Is be ing spared to prove the property, which bids fair to make a mine. Such was the verdict of those who went out Sunday. A little joke Is being told on the party of horseback excursionists, also, and their friends have advised them to hire a guide next time they go out of sight of town, especially as there Is a good plain wagon road to the property they visited. Future of Mineral Flour Spar. There are Indications that the mineral Hour spar, which Is by no means a very common one, nor yet rare, will in a few years take .1 very prominent position in the science of electro-metallurgy, and be come a very desirable product. At pres ent the pure article Is worth about s per ton, and some 20,000 tons are being pro duced annually In this country from favor ably located deposits. Flour spar melts at u comparatively low temperature, and when In the fused condition is capable of taking Into solution a number (perhaps all) of metallic oxides, while the Impuri ties, like quartz, silicates of alumina, lime, magnesia, etc., remain undissolved, and rising to the surface of the molten mass may be skimmed or run off as a dross or scum. In addition the fused solution so made, proves to be an electrolyte through which a current of electricity may be passeJ and from which some of the metals and per haps all of them may be collected at the cathode In a state of purity, the oxygen combined wlih them going to the anode. This Is a new principle, and looks as if It might be developed into an entirely new departure In metallurgy. So far, no other mineral seems to posses the solving and electro transmitting or carrying properties of the Hour spar, and we advise miners wlio are aware of deposits of thesubstance to lose no time in taking them up and pat enting them. Flour spar usually occurs In veins in the older rocks, such as gran ite, gneiss, serpentine, mica, schist, etc., occasionally In the older limestones and sandstones. It is an easily recognized mineral of a light glassy appearance, usually purple, blue, green rose red or yellow tints all through It. It Is trans parent or partly so, heavier than quartz, softer than pyrite, but harder than galena or zinc blende; Is brittle, crystalizes In cubes or eight sided figures, and after be ing heated will show phosphorescence In the dark Spokesman-Review. B. L. McLAIN MILL WRIGHT ERECTION OP QUARTZ MILLS A SPECIALTY Sumpter j Oregon CAPITAL HOTEL Placer and Quartz Location Notices for sale at this office. All the News Of all the Fields Of the Pacific Coast. Western Oil News PuHllh-4 Every I'rldiy 52.00 Per Year $1.25 For Six Months 75 Cts. For Three Months 320 SANSOAE ST. SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA HnN-i?79IH Send The Miner to your eastern friends. $2 per year .-a-------------m------..iPB-- . . . The . . . SUMPTER MEAT MARKET AUSTIN MEAT CO., Props. Butcher and Packer Fresh and Cured Meats and Sausage of all Kinds SUMPTER, OREGON