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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1902)
icttrssxKXBSKtmaBaaesss. 1 L Wednesday, September j, 1902 THE SUMPTER MINER 3& TESTING COAL FROM JOHN DAY Rail Road People Interested in The Proposition. All tlm big transcontinental railroads are looking for coul more coal. Tlity must imvu it for fuel, for use of petroleum lias not yet been sufficiently tested to warrant the suggestion that it will soon be in general use as fuel. Success enough lias attended the .tests so far, nowevcr, to justify the iiue that it may ultimate ly be used extensively. Kven in that event, coal will always command i-xju'ii-sive respect for domestic purposes. Hence, we may readily understand why iwrslstciit effort is being made to establish the fact that extensive coal beds lie along the course of the John Day river; and knowledge of thecircum stancu that u big railroad company Ih behind the present effort to make u tinal test of the quality of the coal in local Heidi assures lit! that a big railroad com pany Ih searching for adequate cxcuhu to build into the John Day country at an early day ; first, for development and line of our coal deosit8 and other rich and extensive resources, and, second, to head off envloiiH couietitorH who are anxious to harvest protitH from tho same Held. The mission of V. V. Itcesc, who went to Portland thin week with excellent samples of coal from the dcxisits below John Day town, in in line with the above suggestion, lie went bh the agent of those who represent millions of capital. His samples will bcmibjcctcd to'scruti 110118 analysis by exerts for the O. It. & X. Co., and, if the tent prove favorable,' it meaiiH a big railroad up the John Day river within a short time. In the pres eut emergency in which railroad com pa il ice tind themselves, there can be no doubt of tho correctness of thin conclu sion. Prairie Citv Miner. FIGURING ON COPPER SUPPLY. Exprt Will Aiccrtain Total Stock of Re fined Article oc Atigutt I. An effort in being made in the east to tind out how much refined copHsr there Ih in the United States and iih soon hh the information Ih obtained, it will be given the public in circular form. The information in to be based on govern ment reorta and statements of ware house men in Liverpool, Havre and Swansea. Thu compilation Ih to lemado by Messrs. Led mix ,k Co., who are not only tecliuically familiar witli the sub ject, hut who are In position to sccuro the tigureH desired in the makeup of the statistics. In relation to the promised compila tion Dr. Albert It. I.edoux, of New York, nays! ' "It is true that at the suggestion of friends I have undertaken to ascertain the total stocks of copjier on August 1, 11)02, and have met with uuexctei success.! Mtst oHIie, important copper producers Imvu given life in confidence their stocks on hand at the mines, in transit or in warehouses, whether sold or unsold. And in other cases I have ob- tained'the necl-isary information hit my, own wv. In most cases I liul'iidl dlnV? culty In verifying statements rendered annul confident that the figure which Ij shall publish 'will accurately represent the, real Jrade situation, sofar as, influ enced by the question of stocks. ''Xot only have I obtained estimates from producers, but ; haye-ascertained stocks held by the" refiners' of the conn tryVlietlier In the form of matte, bars, anodes of rettnedj- XhetlK0reB cptilds-be ready for publication at this time ex cepting for the fact that I am endeavor ing to avoid' duplication. For instance, it is reported to me that a certain min ing company lias a certain amount of copper on hand and if this copper hav pened to bo in a refinery it would bo in cluded in the refinery's report, unless particular rare was taken to separate it. It will probably be published about Sc lumber 1. I have purposely avoided ad ding up the items so tlint T can truthful ly say to inquirers, that I do not know myself what the totala will figure out until the very end of the' compilation." SAME OLD COMPLAINT. Kiiiteu.Minkk: During the past six weeks I have had a task to perforin that has betjn one of thu most ditlicult I have ever (tfmVrtaken, ami I have crformed the same kind of labor in many western states and in British Columbia, during the past quarter of a century. The work alluded to is thu acquiring and compila tion of information regarding the mines of eastern Oregon. To say that I am surprised at the state of affairs as they exist here is drawing it mild. Ah an instance, I very much de sired to ascertain the gold production for the years 11)00 and 1001, and approached every one I thought it Ksxlhlc to Mjst me on the question. If any one has this information I have been unable to locate the individual. Also, 1 am pained to say no one ap pears to take any interest In changing this condition of affairs for the better. In fact, many are opposed to any enact ment that would compel mine owners making reorts as to their production, claiming the owner of a mine cannot bo called for a statement of his output any more than a merchant can be comelled to give out Information as to his busi ness. Mr. Kditor, this argument strikes mo as being silly. There is really no com parison between thu two lines of busi ness. The merchant with his private capital purchases his stock froma whole saler and disposes of it at a profit. His is a vocation in which the Federal gov ernment has no interest. Yet the asses sor and. the tux collector can demand certain statements from him according to law, which become u part of the pub-1 lie records. i On the other hand, tlio mine owner acquires his wealth-producer from the general government; that same govern ment has a deiiartment at tho nation's capital. Part of the business of this department is to acquire and furnish information as to the production of thu precious metals in the United States and give credit to each state or district. But, astonishing as it may appear, I am credibly Informed that the immense amount of treasure being won from the ground in the state of Oregon Is divided hs follows : Some of the gold goes to the United States assay office at iloisc. Idaho gets the credit. Some goes to San Francisco. Califor nia guts thu credit. The high gradu shipping ores and the rich concentrates go to Puget Sound. Washington gets the credit. Mr. Kditor, there is surely some way by which this deplorable state of affairs can be remedied. Oregon is a great gold producing state. It should have proper credit for its production. The Sumpter district is wonderfully productive, yet who can give the seeker after informa tion any real facts? Kamiai.i. 11. Kkmi. Sumpter, Oregon, August 110, IDOL. HEI Why Go East Over thu sun-hurnud sage brush and alkali plains when you may just as well taku a delightful, cool and comfortable ride through thu heart of thu Itocky mountains in view of the grandest scen ery on tho American continent? This you ran do by traveling on thu Wo (irandu system, thu far famed "Scenic Line of the World," the only transconti nental liuu passing through Salt Lake City, (ilenwood Springs, l.cadvillc, Col orado Springs and Denver, en route to eastern points. Three daily express trains maku close connections with all trains east and west and afford a choice of five distinct routes of travel. 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