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Wednesday, August 20, 1902
THE SUMPTER MINER
IMPENDING
REALTY BOOM
Expert Examines Sumpter and
Pronounces Favorable
Judgment.
Attorney C. H. McColloch nays that
the ntory published recently in Tiik
Mixkk on the activity in the local real
estate market had an immediate bene
rlcial effect. It brought one outside
buyer hero within a week after its pub
lication, a man who makes a specialty of
real estate investments. He studies
conditions, analyr.es indications and
draws his conclusions as to future possi
bilities. Tliis veteran in the business
exported this camp, pronounced the
proposition all rlultt and will take ad
vantage of favorable opportunities of
fered. As n matter of fact, soveral gentlemen
who have devoted years to the study of
town lot bourns have expressed tho opin
ion to tho writer that Sumpter is ripe
for quito a little flurry in tho real estate
market. Hut those "booms," as they
are generally designated, are the result
of careful culture and nursing, intelli
gent and persistent advertising, which
must bo done by the organized, united
effort of its citizens. Sumpter has no
such wot nurse, no commercial or busi
ness body to advance its Interests, and
apparently never will have. Its citizens
and business men aro all making some
money, doing just about so well, seem to
bo satisfied with present conditions and
it is a clear case of "every man for him
self and tho devil take the hindmost."
Notwithstanding this state of affairs,
the town was never before ho prosper
ous. It is almost iniK88ibl to rent a
dwelling house here and positively im
possible to secure one with any desirable
modern conveniences. Any ono who
would build such could rent a dozen of
them in twenty-four hours and receive
an income thorofrom that would net
him twenty per cent on tho investment.
This demand for houses is what has
created a demand for lots ; people aro
building their own homos because they
can't rent them, although they could
use this money to better advantage in
eonio mining enterprise. And so it hap
ions that there is a strong probability of
n more or less well develoied town lot
boom hero, without tho aid of u board of
trade, a committee to promote publicity,
or oven a townsite company. The great
strides that have been made in the de
velopment of our mines during tho past
two years, tho vast quantities of gold
that is being taken from tho surround
ing hills, is forcing a boom on us, in
spite of our masterly inactivity, and far
famed mossbackisni.
DOWN ON BURNT RIVER.
Great Pomcroy Dredge Will Soon Return
Operation.
Tho great I'omeroy dredge, now lying
in a ecooied-out lake or basin of liurnt
river, tieai Weatherby, may not bo idle
much longer. The huge boat, with its
ponderoiiH machinery, is in charge of
George Moore, a veteran miner, who
was profitably busy for years in placer
mining on Chicken creek. Tho dredge
looks unique amid tho trees, Its huge
twin smokestacks, rising high above the
foliage. The boat is 107 feet long and
forty feet wide. Tho forty buckets, on
an endless chain, scoop up tho gravel to
tho bedrock, dumping tho stuff into a
great steel flume, which is 1(10 feet long.
Tho steam xwcr of tho dredge also
operates a complete electric lighting
plant, so that tho gold washing work has
been carried on at night as well as by day.
The work has been prosecuted in from
twenty-four to thirty-two feet depth of
water.
In sight of Weatherby a striko of a
rich four-foot ledge has just been made
in tho Granite Mountain claims, of which
M. N. Thompson is suerinteiident.
Superintendent Knight is in charge of a
promising property, owned by Walla
Walla capitalists and equipped with a
two-stamp mill. Tho Dana, Sueriu
tendent Gleason, and tho Weatherby
Ilonanza each have five-stamp mills, op
crated by gasoline engines. Tho Inter
state and the Little Hill, the latter
equipped with a two-stamp mill, are
promising properties. Frank Jenkins is
superintendent of the Little Hill.
It is said the William Weatherby
placers, on Chicken creek, operating
from two to three giants, have had a
paying run this year.
Wood A Kastahrook, veteran miners
of California and Oregon, are oening
up what promises to bo good gold dig
gings a fow miles above Weatherby, on
Hurnt river.
Near Durkee the Gold Itidgo and the
Gold Hill mines each have ten-stamp
mills. The properties are well known
as being among tho best developed
quartz mines in the Northwest. Demo
crat. IRRIGATE DEAD OX FLAT.
Plan to Put Water on Thirty Thoound
Acre of Land.
Tho Artesian Springs Water and Land
company is the name of a corporation
which will bo tho menus of providing
homos for hundreds of eople, and cause
thousands of dollars worth of property
to bo added to the assessment roll of
Malheur county.
About four years ago S. J. Stark and
sous Itegnti the construction of a system
of reservoirs about. ten miles above Vale
for the purpose of storing the Mood waters
of Willow creek. These gentlemen soon
discovered that the- enterprise was too
largo for private effort to handle
successfully, so in .lanuary, WOl, formed
the corporation above named.
From tho beginning, four ears ago,
tho Starks and the company have to
gether oxciided about $7000 in construc
tion work, which has resulted in build
ing a supply ditch one and one-half miles
long, four feet deep and fifty feet wide,
and two dams at Spring Cove, one of
which is 400 feet long, ten feet high and
sixty feet wide at tho 'bottom, und the
other is 150 feet long and twelve feet
high.
When each of these dams incompleted
to fifteen feet in height, and the supply
ditch constructed a mile and a half
moro, which work will bo douo this fall,
tho reservoirs will have a capacity of 500
acres of water, ten feet deep, and it is
confidently expected that this amount
of water will be stored during the com
ing winter, and tho water used for irri
gating purK)ses next year.
Tho company has already contracted
to supply water for altout 1000 acres for
next year, about 1000 acres of which is
along Willow creed and Malheur river,
and 1000 acres on Dead Ox flat.
It is estimated that 17,000 acres on
Dead Ox flat and ll'.OOO acres near Vale,
on Willow creek und the Malheur river,
can now be irrigated from the reservoirs
now in course of construction, and the
other reservoirs which will lie built ad
jacent thereto. Vale Gazette.
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