VOL III.
TO RUSH WORK
ON THE SMELTER
DR. MUELLER RETURNED FROM
THE EAST YESTERDAY.
Plant Will be m Perfect at Can be Built
Necessary Funds Secured and Super
intendent of Construction Engaged
Machinery Manufacturers Figuring on
Contracts Preliminary Plans Prepared
Men Who "Pay the Freight" Will
Arrive In a Few Days There is
Another "Hen On."
Dr. K. W. Mueller returned to Sump
ter yesterday Irom an extended trip eiiMt,
as fnr iih llaltimoreand Now York, where
he went on business iertaiuiiig to the
Hinelter, which he, Professor Kbermnn,
Killen, Warner & Stewart have success
fully promoted. Ho aunouuccH that he
will make Sumpter his home in future,
and devote all of IiIh time towards mull
ing to early completion the big customs
reduction plant and ocratiug it after it
is tiniHhed.
The preliminary plans for the smelter
have lieeu drafted and machinery manu
facturers are now preparing bids to be
submitted at un early date. While east
Dr. Mueller consulted with builders of
smelters in Denver, Milwaukee and Chi
cago, securing information regarding the
most approved modern machinery, lie
leaves today for Siokuue on a similar
mission, returning the latter paitof thu
week, and will soon have to make an
other trip to Denver, on the same busi
ness. The muchinury required will amount
to about UK) tons. No dates as to when
the lirst shipment will arrive, when
ground will lie broken or when oieru
tions will begin can now be given ; but
Mr. Mueller says that everything will be
be rushed as rapidly us ossiblu; that
when it is completed it will be as jmrfect
and up-to-date a l-MO-ton smelting plant
and 400-ton sampler us it is possible to
build, and that the money to pay for it
Js provided. One of the best known and
most successful smelter builders in this
country has been engaged as siiporin
tendent of construction and he, with his
family, will arrive in Sumpter at an
early day ami establish a home here.
Shortly after his arrival the work of
grading for the foundation will be com
menced. Out at the brick yard 15,000 brick are
being moulded every day and by nest
Monday tires will lie started iu the first
kiln, of 200,000. Others will be built
and burned without delay.
. Within a few days the eastern capital
ists who have furnished the money for
this enterprise will visit Sumpter; Dr.
Mueller says for the purHise of holding
u director's meeting and electing erma
nent otlicers of the company. They w ill
SUMPTER, OREGON, JULY 16, 1902
very probably do ho, but that it not
what brings them some thousands of
miles from home. They are coming
hero to investigate iinother, n bigger
proK)ttitioii, regarding the imturo of
which none of the gentlemen connected
with the enterprise will give thu slight-
CHt intimution will not even uckuowl
edge Mint there is another "hen on."
Theo Hoplu are large capitalists,
prominent in the linancial world, and
have the means to carry through to sue
cess any enterprise that they may tin
dertuke, iiiHtnlling n great electric owcr
plant, buying the Sumpter Valley road,
or building one of their own.
Big Cleanup at Buck Gulch Placers.
Yesterday W. It. Hawley displayed
$WX) worth of gold dust taken from thu
llrst live sluicu boxes on his Buck Gulch
placers. A week or ten days siucu hu
took $800 from thu samu boxes. There
are sixteen In all, eleven of which have
not yet been touched. The cleanup of
bedrock and all the sluicu boxes will Ixi
mudu in a week or ten days, when, it is
thought, several thousand dollars worth
of gold will bu secured. Messrs. Hawley
and Amos and Joe Weaver bought this
proHsrty from Devoro A Asbtiry last fall,
and increased thu wutur supply by dig
ging a ditch a mile and a half long. Hu
thinks hu will taku out enough gold this
year to pay for the prourty and im
provements. Thu former owners work
od thu ground, with a limited water suji
ply, for u number of years, taking out
from $2,000 to 1,000 in about six weeks
tlmt water wus available. And there
aru other such opMirtuuitifs all around
Sumpter, Mailing for men of enterprise
and some money.
Found a $400 Pocket of Gold.
Monday the First Hank of Sumpter
bought $400 worth of gold taken from a
pocket found in a ipiartx ledge. Cashier
Hoy Miller declined to statu from what
pnurty it was taken, but said it was
found not fur from Sumpter. It is one
of thu interesting human nature studies
displayed in mining camps, that no one
wishes any publicity given to the fact
when he finds a sx:kct, and thu bank
which buys thu gold maintains a profes
sional secrecy akin to thut!moseduou
a physician under certain conditions.
This particular lot, us is the usual char
acter of pocket gold, is Mrous and light,
only about one-third the weight of tlm
same bulk of nuggets.
Need More Powerful Sicking Plant.
J. M. Mcl'hee returned from Sea
side last week, where hu hud been
with his sick wife. He has decided to
replace the sinking and pumping plant
on the Wiuurd with much more swer
ful machinery, as the one now there is
not capable of oerutiug both thu pumps
ami a cage, which will have to bo put in
at no distant day, as it is the intention
of the company to erect u mill iu u few
mouths. General .Manager Mcl'heu
says a large body of ore has been un
covered, that runs from eight to twelve
dollars.
RESUME WORK
ON THE DIADEM
General Warren and Governor
Spriggs Arrive From Butte
for That Purpose.
General Onirics S. Warren and Hon.
A. K. Spriggs, arrived iu Sumpter this
forenoon from llutte, Montana. They,
with A. I.. McKwcn and W. O. Culder,
left at 12 o'clock for thu Diadem mine.
The General says that work will soon
lie resumed on this procrty, and done
right this time.
Instead of continuing the tunnels, a
shaft will bu sunk, and It will soon 1m
determined whether or not the Diadem
is thu making of a mine, or is merely a
bunch of rich stringers. Several car
loads of ore have !ecu shipMd from the
Diadem that sampled uhout $ 127. Two
years ago, when General Warren tlrst
took charge of thu property, he hud
about AflO M)uuds of the oru In his ofllce
here, and madu the standing offer that
If any one could find a piece of rock in
the entire lot that would assuv less than
$100, he would lm given $100. No one
uver won the mniicv.
This A. K. Spriggs, who accompanies
thu General on this trip, is' the nervy
thoroughbred who, two or three years
ago, when lieutenant governor of Moli
lalia, during thu touiMrury absence of
Governor Smith, apHilutel W. A ('lark
United States senator, a few hours after
he had been deprived of his seat in that
body, after tlmt long, sensational trial,
with which all aru familiar. Mr.
Sprlgus Is here at this time as thu rep
resentative of the llutte stockholders in
the Diadem. They now own 700,000
shares of the stock and will ox'ii up the
mine. Hu was in Sumpter July 4, three
years ago, when there was so much
snow iu thu Cable Cove district that he
couldn't get to thu California mine, and
that is why Montunu coplo don't own
that great property Unlay.
Hu looks after thu mining interests of
II. L. French, one of Montana's mil
llonuires, who is reputed to back Patsy
Clark, the big oerator at Republic, iu
any deal he chooses to go into.
General Warren has recently returned
from TonuMih, Nevada. He sins that
is a great mining camp, hut thu most
God-forsaken country to live in he ever
saw ; that this is u paradise in com
parison. Recently, when returning
from a ten mile drive there, his son
Wesley found three horned frogs and
two Hazards in his coat sicket. It is
dry and hot and dusty; water is dearer
than whiskey and that is a condition
of affairs that tortures the General's
temHrate soul. Regarding thu move
ments of his friend and himself, hu said :
"Mr. Spriggs will return to Montana
us soon us we get back Irom thu Diadem,
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to make his report. 1 will remain hero
somedays, straightening out my busi
ness affairs. As sism us I get an op
portunity, I want to have a big medicine
talk with you."
Stamp Mill For the Cracker-Oregon.
Joseph I.. Michaels, of Minneapolis,
president of the Turuugaiu Arm Mining
company, which owns and operates the
California mine, is in Sumpter on one of
his cridicul trips of inss'ctiou. It Is
umlerstisHl that he has under considera
tion (lie problem of erecting a reduction
plant on the procrty, probably a con
centrator. Mr. Michaels is also inter
ested, individually, In the Cracker-Oregon,
though he is not an olllcer iu thu
company. In this connection, llverett
llrowu, the local managing director, sayu
that it has liccn detlnitely decided to put
in a stamp mill on this prnjicrty and
that work on same will begin at an early
du. The company has raised thu price
of Cracker-Oregon stock from tlftcen to
twenty-live cents cr share. The change
In thu price was accidentally overlooked
this week iu the advertisement.
President of the Baby McKee Her.
Louis Iluer, of Cincinnati, president of
the Ha by McKce-ljist Chance, cumo lit
from thu mine today, accninimiiicd by
General Manager Townsend. This Ih
Mr. liner's llrst trip to eastern Oregon.
Hu expresses himself as much pleased
with the country in general anil thu
property in which he is interested in
particular. He leaves for home this af
ternoon. Regarding Hut mine and tho
future Millcy of the company, he declin
ed to talk, referring the Interviewer to
Mr. Townsend. That gentleman said:
"There is nothing new to rcsirt. Wo
will continue driving the long tunnel
until we cut the vein."
Came to Sumpter to Sec a Big Mine.
D. W. Cusslduy, Allterl Dollumeyer
and W. K. Nelson, of Minneapolis, with
iu Sumpter last Thursday and Friday.
The llrst mimed two were induced to
come out to eastern Orctmu by Mr. Nel
son to investigate the (sirphyry dyko
prowisitiou near Malheur I'lty, of which
mention was made in these columns two
weeks since. They were entirely satis
fied with thu pros-rty and will join
issues with Mr. Nelson and develop it.
They came over Into thu Humpter dis
trict for the purMise of seeing a big;
mine, and while here visited the Gol-
condn.
Work at the North Pole Extension.
W. II. Tihlmls, of Salt take, onu or
gentlemen who recently twilight tho
Yosemitu group of claims from A. W,
Kills, and iucorsiruted a compuny under
thu name of thu North l.'ole extension,
arrived in Sumpter several duys since,
accompuuied by his cxrt, I). P.
Rohlflug, and will soon begin active de
velopment work on the proierty.
Thu most Miwer(ul and sipular explo
sive Giant Miwdur.
Ilest brands ol cigars ul lloffmiwi't
Bakery.