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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1901)
&9BBR8(M78ffi jBjgjwjiMiaa&s ''jja-iEJL'iiti-1 iwMPsmBmmtumhi'jasi THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, Aug. 14, ljoi THINGS HUMMING IN CABLE COVE. Rich Unexpected Strikes In Grown Point and Baby McKee. Several prominent mining men from tho Cal)lu Cove diHtrlct luivo lieen in town tliiH week.au.oug HiIh number 1m ing T. V, llarhco, one of tlm owuerH of thoCroun Point, anil Kugono llartholf, tho cxtciiHivo oKsrator on Uig I.imlicr. Tin! latter mih hero to okjii bids for driving u 500-foot tunnel on tilt) CoiiHtel ImIIoii. TIiIh contract was to have In'cii aw anted Moudav moiling, lint Home change in the HpcrlllcationH wiih made, tlio IiMh went returned and, now oiiuh called for, to 1m opened thin, Wednesday, evening. Mr. Ilarheu reports that lit) had, a day or two since, cut a blind ledgoou the ('rown Point, tlm cxiMcnco ol which ho wiih not liefore awiirn. It is nlmut four feet wide, of tlio hiiiiio character oro that Ih found all oxer tlio diHtrlct, all of uhich carrion high valucH. It wiih en countered in tlio croHHcnt tunnel some thing pwrMM) feel fioni tlio inoutli. It in expected that thin tunnel will cut tlio main lodge at uhotit KHHIfeet. It in iiImi reported tlmt iutohh tlm di vide, ocr on tlio I la by Mi'Keo, three ledges Iiiim) houu recently cut in tlio IlOOO-foot tunnel which Ih how- being driven. Thu hint one encountered, onu coincidence the famotiH Jacy well in Texan, tlio largcnt gusher known, passed through precisely thu sumo condition's, having encountered oil at a coinpara tively Hhullow depth, but not in large quantities until 1000 feet wiih reached. The Idaho company, coniKml of Iloino capitaliHtn, Iiiih Imou very fortun ate in getting such indinputablu ovi donccH of oil at bo Hlight a depth and it will make thu fortunate owners a good stuko for their nerve. Now casings will Ihj put in, tho woll having been roamed out to Hoven inches in diameter. Tho coinpiiiiy proMHo ovorything to 1ms first cIiihh and to that end are working. Geo logical condltioiiH are such that no great dopth will have to bo drilled in compar ison with other floldH, that u good How of oil Ih and can conlldently Ihj looked for at WW or (100 feet. Nainpa Siccial to tho Itakor City Herald. MINING THE MOST LEGITIMATE INDUSTRY. Eastern With All Man Compares it Other Callings. An eiiHteru gentleman who wiih in Halt Lake hint week Hooiued particularly in- tercHtcd in tho mining going on in Utah, lie linked many ipieHtionn and took a deep inturcHt in tho iiccountH of Individ- uttlri who had made fortuncH in tho huwi ui'Hrt of mining. At hint, after a pause, ho looked up and said : "It hcciim to me that mining in uhout the most legiti mate ot ludtiHtrlcM. In the ciiHt wo raise grain and HvcHtock and make wagoiiH ami are engaged in all manner of work, but tho object, after till, is to got money for what wo do or produce. Why Ih it not better to no for the nionov direct? day last week, carrion oro averaging $100 Tholl ti,ero jH ailotHur thing. Wo plant a ton. Dr. (irccnlco returned Sunday from that diHtrlct, whore ho and IiIh family had Iteoii camping for a week. Ho brought back with him a great chunk of oro from an ohii cut in tho UipHy King, that Ih entirely different in char acter, from any yet taken from that wonderful, puxxling ledge. It carrica scarcely a trace of pyriten, Ih black, seamed with white, and all tho local rwk wharpH nay it "lookn good." Asnay retuniH have not yet been made. The California people aroptiHhing pre liminary arraugomeiitH for licgimiiug ooratioiiH on a ery much enlarged scale. TimborH are liolng gotten out for new liuildiugH, and hi1ch for u telephone line, which will also lie extended to the iluby McKco. ThingH are humming out that way, and knowing ouch say that the diHtrlct Mill in two yearn make tho Hand look like a gigantic "horse." Squeezing Amalgam With Hydraulic Power The AliiHka-Trcadwcll Alining com pany uhch a hydraulic prens for squcez. ing out the exccxH of mercury Ironi gold amalgam obtained from the mill clean mi. Tho amalgam Ih placed in bagn of caiivaH, which are placed in a cylinder, thowallHof which are mrforatcd. A ram in forced into thin cylinder and againnt the bagn with great pressure. The amalgam obtained in thin way in much richer than that obtained by hand squeezing. HchIiIoh, tho oHration in quicker. Parailln Oil Struck In Owyhee. Oil, parailln oil, ban been h truck in the Owyhee oil Holds and there is no inibtake in tho premises. Oil in con siderable quantities wan encountered in the l'araguo Oil compaiiy'H well hint week at a depth of JKJfi feet. A tine white oil Waring sandstone showed oil in eoiislderublo quantities Thin in the correct rcHirt from the well now being drilled, and it ineiuiH that the Owyhee oil Holds will shortly be the menus of starting great industry, the magnitude of which no man can tell, Hy a curious our wheat and worry ull winter to know whether it will winter-kill or not. Then, if it eHciiHjH the spring front and tho in HoctH and there in a promiso of n great crop, we wonder if it will not be ho heavy iih to cut down the price. If a man gets money out of a mine he does not injure any of his neighbors." The mun hud begun to hoo things from the right Htandoint. Men tiro all struggling for money. No mutter what may bo tho occupation, tho object Ih at hint to convert something into mon ey. All tho money that the world K)8 sessos ban come from the minoH. There is no way to produce it from any other Hource. It may have been taken hiHt year from the Klondike; it may have been dug by the Incus in Peru ; it may have been ta ken by the HomaiiH from their mines in Spain ; but no mutter, it Ih the huiiiu in destructible ineuHuro of values, and not more truly following an irrcsintiblo luw do the tides ebb and How, than docs civ ilization advance and recede, according to tho volume of u country's legitimate money. Hence no work in more honor able, iioiio more legitimate. The dollur that tho miner wrenches from the stub born rock Ih u now creation. It was no other man's, it lessens the value of no pniierty that any man iwssoHHes; it will command recognition everywhere, and burburouH as welliiH civilized man knows its value. It sleeps in its matrix in darkness and silence until some miner blasts down tho doors that lead into its chamber, and when awakened it at once begins to take on its proortiou of man's burden, and it curries it on forever. Surely there is no higher employment j than to study how it was originally con cealed and to find and bring it to the light. The men of the east point to their mighty works on sea und laud w ith u just pride, but certain it Ih no men of like number hao done so much to change the face of the world as have the men who since 1840 have been keeping in How tho stream that in that year was set in motion eastward from California, and which has been kept flowing on and on with increasing volume ever since, j They really have changed tho face of our republic j they have kept tho arteries of business bounding with ever increasing vigor, and no work is quito so legitimate an mining. Salt Lake Tribune. Rich Resources of the Panhandle. Carefully prepared statistics show the resources of the Panhandle district, recently annexed to Ilaker coun ty, to be of far greater richness than at first supposed. At present there are 41,000 acres of land under culti vation in Eagle, Pine and Powder val leys, with 32,000 acres more which will bo under cultivation as soon as irrigating ditches, now being constructed, are com pleted. The annual tonnage of pro ducts Ih iih follews: Hay, 1 It, 000 tons; wool, 250 tons; wheat, 17,000 tons; ores from the Cornucopia, Sparta and other mines, 870 tons; merchandise, 1,200 tons ; fruit and vegetables, 2,600 tons ; heavy freight, going in, 2,500 tons; sheep, 175 carloads; cattlo, 500 cars; hogs, ISO cars; lumber, 1,000,000 feet. Huntington Herald. Thirty Dollar Rock on a Farm. A German farmer residing on the Ne canlcum is reported to have discovered a three-foot vein of gold beuring quartz on his claim. According to report, the quartz has been assayed and found to yield $30 per ton. Tlio owner refuses to show his find to anyone, fearing that someone, as lie says, would "file a mineral claim" on it. Harney County News. Law on Abandoned Improvements. The locator of a mining claim has a right to the ownership of any abandon ed improvements such, for example, as a house on the land within the stnkes marking tho boundary line of tho loca tion. Improvements that nro not aban doned cannot bo acquired by location of a mining claim alone. They, however, becomo acquired by the mining claim locator w hen tho location is patented. A miner does not lose tho house ho lives in by his forfeiture of tho mining claim ho built it on. Ho can loso it by the government patenting tho land to some other person. Exchange Sullivan Machinery Co. 13S ADAMS ST., CHICAGO Manufacturers of Diamond Drills Rock Drills Compressors, Hoists and General Mining Machinery Northwest Orricc 101 S. Howard St. Spokane, Wash S. D. Sanders H. Gillis. The Golconda Niwly Fitttd aid Stookid With Hih Grtdi ILiqmrs, Wins aid Cigars tm Sumpter Draught and Pilsner Bottled Beer, Elk Club, Ramsey Scotch, Malt and Bourbon Whiskies SUMPTER, OREGON The New Olympia E. E. HATJSER, Proprietor Successor to Henry Tinoer Lunch Bill. Ttl.m lit.t st.a.Ao l(lu1.t.J l."."'. """ """-' l K uiiiD" Drana ot sardines, van Camp's potted chicken and tongue, deviled ham, pickled lings leei aim lamus tongues, herring, German style and Swiss cneese. Fine Old (1884) Hermitage Whis key Olympia Beer, bot tle or draught. . . Center Street, Opposite P. O. Sumpter s