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Vol iv.
SUMPTER, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 10, 1902.
NO. 1.
BUILDING MILL ON '
Z. ZrRAaCER-OREGON
Big Force of Men Now at
'"Work there. .
There nrt man than forty men now at
work 011 the Cracker-Oregon group, in
ilm Cracker Creek district, underground
ami uhove,
Twenty-the of these nrt' grading tlio
tit for t (n mill. The contract for erect
log the building mill installing the ma
chinery lm been let to John Uildlow, n
millman of long experience, who arrived
hi Sumpter last spring and who Iium
erected stamp mills, all over the world.
For right yearn he wan with the Tread
well company, In Alaska. Jorvis, Hilit
ft Co., who own aMJrniill near Mc
Kwen, are furnishing the 100,000 feet ot
lumber required to build the mill, four
carload of which have been delivered.
It will be large enough to accommodate
twenty stamps, and the engine mid
boiler of Hiilllcieiit jiower to operate that
number, though only ten will lie hit, tall
ed at present.
Thin machinery should have arrived
here from Chicago now, and Id daily ex
pected. Number 1 crosscut in now in twenty
five feet lieyond the blind ledge cut two
or three weeks since, where the fabu
lously rich ore wax found, and Im thought
to lie alxiiit seventy feet from the main
M'in. No drift hai lieen run on the vein
already out. Venterduy Kvurott llrown,
the resident director, brought Into t4wn
another one of those marvelously Huh
pieces of riH-k. It weight alsitit tifly
pounds, and in plastered over and er
uirated with yellow gold.
E. G. StcvccMoa Back From Butte
K. !. Stewnson returned Monday
from llutte, where he attended the meet
iug of the International Miuingcongress.
lie hays nothing of any itiisjrtauce wax
accomplished, hut thinks that under the
reorganization Home good will bu ac
complbdied in future. Mr. Stevenson
aayH he returns to eastern Oregon with
more faith in it milieu than he ever had
before. He wan privileged to examine
carefully several of the big producer
around Kutte, and found that they fol
lowed little four to six-inch seauih of ore
down three hundred feet, before largo
ore bodieti wen encountered. Here the
surface showings are all far better than
thin, and he believe many great minea
w ill In- developed.
I omo Spokane people. He lived at the
mine ami Hitperlntended the work last
season. At. prer-eut lie N on the road
I fora (taker City bout, and ban not yet
learned of the Ktrike, unices he ban re
ceived a telegram that has been follow
I hi blm for two day.
Fieo $2869 Rack to Cracker-Swank.
I Word was received here Monday that
on the previous afternoon u rich strike
bad lieen made in the Cracker-Summit,
a body of ore having been uncovered
that assays -'000 in gold. The detail
of thin llnd are not known here at thia
f riting. Thin U the property. which, II.
W..li-tuiiih owns, iii-.)irtiienihip with
i Coal Near tb Friday Mint.
Neil J. SoronHcn & Co. received a let
tcr yesterday from Siicrintedcnt tlrlf
lltli, ol the Friday mine, stating that lie
had discovered indications of a good
quality of coal under the lava capping in
that vicinity. He will at once propect
the ground with a drill, to ascertain the
depth and extent of the dcosit. If coal
in sntllcient quantities is found there,
the Willow creek district will lie given,
an Iiiitetuti that will tend it uhead of ull
its neighbors, us the luck of fuel is the
only drawback to the region. It will
also materially increase Friday divi
dends. Bat Bad 3 day Afternoon.
There will be a base ball game here
Sunday afternoon between the Elks of
Baker City and Sumpter. An excursion
train will be run out from linker and it
in thought several hundred people will
bv aboard. It will leave here on the re
turn trip at seven o'clock in the evening.
All of the local team has not yet been
selected, but Walt Cronlu, who hits the
matter In hand, says It la going to bu u
winner. Hauswirth will be in the liox
and Fontaine behind the bat, and Jhey
constitute a good battery.
Air Drill at Work oa Crowa Point.
T. F. Baiboe, of the Crown Point
mine, had some trouble in getting the
air drills recently Installed them to
work satisfactorily. He secured the ser
vices of Tom Moen, one of the liest ma
chinists in the west, and warned every
body in the district to keep away while
he was at work When Tom finished
the machine was working to ierfectiou,
and the drills are now boring into the
mountain for the big ledge, which has
been the objective Miint of throe years
hard work.
General Warrco Long for Eattc rn Oregon.
It. 11. Kemp received a day or two
since a letter from (Seneral Charles K.
Warren, dated Han Francisco, Septem
ber 5. The General saya Tonopah, Nu
vadn, is a hot camp, and that in San
Francisco every mail without money la
looked upon an a hlgliwuymau. He ia
organlxing a company in that city, but
Bays it ia "an uphill pull with a cold col
lar," and he hope to back in (tod's
country again noon, which of course
meana naatara Oregon.
Aak Wettm Uoioa For a Win.
J. G. Goee haa boon circulating a pe
tition in town, nK-ueoting the Western
Union Telegraph company to put hi a
wire from Baker City to tfela place. The
petition Iiaa boon largely signed. There'
is no doubt it would be of treat benefit
to Sumpter and a remunerative business,
proposition for'the Western '.I' n ion com-j
pony .--. - --.- .
SALE OF SUMPTER
ELECTRIC PLANT
R. E. Strahorn Will Close the
Deal Tomorrow.
It. K. Strahorn, owner of the Sumptcr
water works, is ex'iected to arrive in
Sumpter tomorrow.
He comes here at this time for the
pursise of closing a deal for the pur
chase of the electric Unlit plant, negotia
tions for which have liceu x-nding for
the past two or three weeks.
The terms of the sale have practically
been agreed upon, but just what they
ure those interested refuse to divulge at
this time. Seymour II. Hell, supssed
to be one of the heaviest stockholders,
says it is no sure thing that the sale will
be made. He dearly loves to make a big
deal, however, and it in not often that
he turns down a bunch of money that
will choke a cow ami Mr. Strahorn can
produce it In i hut sire roll.
No man who hits ever Invested money
in this town or district has proven to ho
a more valuablo friend than has Mr.
Strahorn, and Tmr Minkk Iioms that he
will secure the plant. And if he will
now only take up this Townslto coin
IMiiy's holdings, citizens of Sumpter will
be coniNtrntively happy.
Suit Agalmt Two Mloiog Con-panlci.
Colonel John Temple tirayson has
brought suit against the Haby .McKce
and l-ast Clmiice Mining companies and
Oscar Tow nsend, asking for an injunction
against the removal of the general offices
to Cincinnati, the apMiintmeiit of a re
ceiver and the jMiymcnt to him of monies
claimed to lie due. The complaint al
leges .that the plaintiff owns slock in
both comMinies; that Isith companies
owe liim large sums of money for ser
vices rendered; that Isith companies
are Oregon corporations; that the Itahy
McKce Consolidated Mines coinutiiy, a
corporation of Arizona with otllce in
Cincinnati, and the defendant Oscar
Towusend, conspired together, relocated
said mining claims ami deeded them to
the new company last named and hao
abandoned all interest In the old com
panies in an effort to freeze out the
plaintiff. Plaintiff prays for the u
polntuient of a receiver, pending litiga
tion ; for mone due for services amount
ing to over 2000 ; for the setting aside
of the relocations; for the annulment of
the dead made by Townseud to the new
company; for a ierpetual injunction;
for the holding of .annual, meetings and
the election of Ismrds of directors of the
original companies, the majority of
whom shall be residents of Oregon.
iucorMirators. They, W. K. Lindsay, of
New York, and .1. A .Mclaughlin, of
Nebraska, are the directors; D. L. Kll
len, president; II. I.. Stewart, vice pres
ident; .1. A. Mclaughlin, secretary; W.
K. Lindsay, treasurer; K. F. Warner,
auditor. The company'ls capitallxud at
nMMMM). The old tlrm hits deeded to
the company all of Mis holdings in the
several mining companies which it haa
handled, development work on theso
will Ihi pushed as rapidly as winh11Io,
other iiroiM'rties will inj taken up, minea
will Ik Isiught aid sold and a general
mining business transacted.. This old
lirm has doubtless brought as much
money into eastern Oregon as any other
one Inllueuce and the new company will
operate on a still more extensive wale,
and accomplish greater things for tho
gold Holds of eastern Oregon.
KtUao, Waracr it Stewart Iccorporaud.
The linn of Killen, Warner & Stewart
has lieen incorsratul under the name
of the Killen, Warner A Stewart com
pauy, the member of the tlrm being the
Another Seattle Mkotog Man Here.
Mr. Carter, of Seattle, arrived in
Humpter Monday, and went nut to tho
Cracker Creek district yesterday. Ho in
there to examine the tSold King group,
on the other side of the North I'ole ledge
from the Cracker-Oregon group. II it
suits him, he will take it up .end begin
the work of dt.tolopu.cut atone.- -Mr.
Carter has been ojieratiug in minea on
the Sound for u half doxen years paei,
and has established first class eeatern
connections, that enables him towlm
auy kind of a deal that looks good to
him. His lsit here is the result of some
missionary work done by Captain A. W.
Anderson, of Seattle.
Inatalllng Sinking Plant on ExccUor.
Freil Lack, of llaker City, has lieen in
Sumpter more or less for several weeks)
mst. He is superintending the exten
hive development work now in progress
ut the Kxivlsinr, adjoining the Itcd Hoy
on the north. Yesterday he awarded to
K. Nordyke the contract for putting in
place the gallows frume and erecting tho
buildings for the sinking plant. A art
of the machinery is already on tlm
ground ; the remainder and the big tim
bers will Ihi delhered at an early day.
Contractor Nordyke will go to the mine
and U'glu work next week.
At Work on California Concentrator.
Ten or a dozen miners at the Califor
nia came in from that mine Monday to
spend a few days in towu, while under
ground work is teuiiorarily susmndcd.
The boilers which furnish power for the
air drills are Mug moved a hundred or
ao yards to a siiut where the concen
trating plant ia being erected, tin
purpuMi being to hate all smer under
one roof. Dr. Moulton left yesterday
afternoon for Portland to attend to the
shipment of the machinery' and to have
some change made iu the engine pre-Ivou-ly
ordered.
For the finest cigars, Isith Key Woat
ami domestic, the choicest confection,
pocket knives, icecream, cider, tolaiccoo
mid stationery, go to Slurglll's, on Mjll
street, near (irnnite. .
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