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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1902)
t.v. . fe , . VOL IV. SUMPTER. OREGON. OCTOBER 8. iooj. . NO. THIS OLD CAMP "LOOKS GOOD." GREAT ACTIVITY IN EVERY IN DUSTRY AND BUSJNESS. Fortunes Have Been Made in Mining Residents Inspired With Faith in the District Investing Their Money in Mines and Real Estate Many Build ings Being Erected and Wages High. Thix camp uiul iliHtrict "looks good" nuvor letter, People who liuvu. lived here before n,nd since tliu kindergarten liooin of, three" yearn ago and Iiiivu ac cumulated u little money 'by linril work or clone tiilli'Htiou tn business, uru In " vesting their own money" In 'real extate and milliner proerty. TIiIh new condi tion nf uffuirH hax develoed recently and rapidly. Then line never been really u dull period of sixty duyx duration in Simili ter or the district since the short-lived, feverish activity In the winter of 181ft nud IHOO the conservutivex who have nciiiirel the habit of shaking of the "reaction after the boom" to the con trary notwithstanding. That incipient Ikmhii miido thls'cduntry, and it is? not u "nuirker" to the one that hax already licen inaugurated and will reach full, rounded projiortions of maturity within ii year or eighteen uiontliH hut thin in a diverxioii. Heretofore overynnt Iiiih Ih'cii enthil niaHiciilly willing to aid in inducing others to invent, oven if they received no immediate lienetit, knowing' that they would get their reward Indirectly. TIiIh spirit of loyalty to the region Iiiih worked for the general good In a eurioiiH way. People, hero have striven to null mining properties to outsider''' that they wouldn't think of buying the in pelves; either for the purxnti of earning u small comminxioii theiuselu's, or maybe mere ly "to help out a friend. In a dueu or ninrodimtunces'that tliu writer ciiu re . dill, the buyers have made money al ready ; in mi vera I cases fortunes of con siderable magnitude have Ih-cii realised. Kven now one licarH stories of big hetx overlooked. One man will tell you of u claim lie could have secured u year ago for Mil, or. crliups, fifty pouudH of powdor, u pair of overalls ami rubber hootx, that couldn't bo Ixmght today for i-J.VUOO. Another bemoans the fact that he located u certain piece of ground and ' lost it Ih-cuuso he failed to do the ussess ment work, that wiih Mold day before yesterday for 12,000. Such eases an these are multiplying, day by day. They could tossibly have but one effect, and that in to inspire rexideutx of thiH section with faith in their own country. Tliih ban been accomplished and the SUMPTER, OREGON, inevitable gratifying remit ix immed' ately apparent. Two moutliH el i ice Thk Mi.nkk commented on the budding mc tivityin Sumpter real estate, occasioned by a demand (or lotH on which to build comfortable homes by resident of the camp who have been living in either rented Houses or in shucks. Now, note the close connection between cause and effect. Today carpenterx are receiving, four dollarx a day and there are not one half enough of them in town to supply the demand. The liomcx are Wing built on the lotx Ixiught xixty ami lexx dayH ago. There ix more building in pregress: in .Sumpter tixluy than ever before in itx hixtory, and the Iiouxch are all of a sub Htantial, ivernmncnt character. "If our miuen are good, our real cxtutu ix lietier," ban been accepted ux an axiom in mining caniM for fifty years. If real estate-values are H'riniinently es tablished it ix, therefore, proof that tliu Hiirroundlng mines are all right. Somp- ter's present proHMrouit condition estab lishes the reputation of the gold tleldx of eastern Oregon, for the mining intercxtM 'center here, itlmoxt exclusively, linker City is the storm center for politicx, the headquarters of the agricultural Inter ests, and is a good town of itx kind ; but it ix ax different from Sumpter ax u Wil lamette town ix from one on I'ugct xoiind, ax Portland ix from Seattle. With all thix activity in mining, real estate and building, commerce, uecexca rily xharex in the general awakening. Mayor Itobbinx xtated to the writer yen terday that the dcox!tx in the First Hank of Sumpter are double what they were one year ugo, more than $100,(1(10 in excess. Iluxiiiexs is brisk, and there are mid to bo a half dostcu men in town thix week looking for xtore roomx, men with ample capital who wixli to eug.use in tie mercantile buxluexx here. Ollicex are alxo much nought after by profes xioual men ami brokerx. At leant two more unsay ollicex will be xturted here lit an early day, and noon three or four mining operatorx will move here to do buxiuexx. One of thexe new llrm- Ix pre paring to plunge ami will net a pace dif ficult to keep up with. Thk Ml si:u knowx that ir,tXHl has been appropri ated for advertising purpoxex. F.ucoiirugu them all to come. They will do will mid help ux to do better. Organizing Labor Unions. A meeting of the bartemlerx, ctxikx and waiterx of the city wax held hint evening in Judge Felix' ollice to organ i.e a union. The following olllcerx we're elected: C S. Sheppard, president; .1. Fogarty, vice president; Mixi Jenxie lllackwell, secretary ami treaxurer; Harry Moore, chaplain; I.. A. Crunk, inspector; Churlex tilaxcock, outnide guard; Minn-Ijuirn Hinton, W. II. Car ter and Harry Moore, executive com mittee. J. II. Buck, organlxer of the American Federation of l.bor for cuxt ern Orego.iand western Idaho, hax been in town organizing tliu laboring men and expects to form uuionx among the car peuterx, blacksmiths, printers and others. OCTOBER 8, 190 COUGAR MINE WILL RESUME ooioi -v Browne & Smith Solving Ore -p rj ii Ireatment rrODlem. llrowneand Smith, mining engineers and uielallurgixtx, have been retained by the Cougar Mining company, to solve the problem of treating the refractory ores taken from that miuo. The gentlemen have established the tirst completely equipped metallurgical lalxiratory in F.ustcru Oregon, in the Stage company's building, (.'enter xtreet. They there have everything necessary for the work, chemical apparatus, assay furnace and equipment, rock crusher an so forth. At an early day there will lie installed a series of leaching tanks, with u capacity of, '.TiO pounds of ore. Thix will unable them to make practical testx of ore treatment, after the method hax been determined by lire and chemical exerimeiits. The tlrm will do no custom assaying, hut will use the plant in their own work, ax consulting engineers end metal lurgiciil exjH'rts. The Cougar has always been conxid- crcd a great mine, with a big lxxly of high grade ore, and the fact that it hax been idle for no long hax mystified the uninformed public. The property Ix equipped with a modem ten stamp mill ami a cyanide plant. 'I he fact that men skilled in the scieutillc treatment of ore have Ik-uii employed to devise a method for economically saving the value-', explains the long shutdown. It ix evident that nome modification of the cyanide process must lie devised. Menem. Ibouuu and Smith nay Unit no far us they have gone with tlielr ex periments, they anticlpati) no serious oD-titclt-x in solving inn prooiem, uuo that when this is accomplished, the iniiiit will dnuhtlcs rcnuuiu operations on a huge scale. For the pant two years it hax been reM-atedly xald that the Cougar mine wax alsiut to be sold, for one, two, three millions; an kiiiux oi money, in iiici ; but it is still owned by .1. W. Laikiu and axxociatex, mining men living In Spokane. Smelter Superintendent Arrives. ('. It. Neel, superintendent of the Oregon Smelting .V Kclinliig company, hils arrived to take cliargu of construe tiou and installation of the smelter here. He hax been ill Chicago and Denver, working with the engineers ami manu facturers of the machinery, designing and planning all the machinery ami arrangements of the plant. Mr. Xeel is mi experienced smelter man, a graduate of Chicago Cuiverxity und the Michigan School of Minex. He begun Ills smelter experienco with the Amalgamated Co per company at Huttu, then wax a fore man in the Boston-Montana plant at Great Falls, ami later wax superintend- 5- out of the ltotiui. Wyoming smelter, i where hi- ellieienev'broiiubt hilu iiriiiui- nently Ix-inrc the smelter' world. H I will have entire charge of tile plant here, I both cuuntrui'lioii and operation. Tliixi 'H '"r'l,,,r evidence that the Oregon Smelting V Itelluing company under- : stands itx huninens mid ix going abend (intelligently. TheMiielterli.aniigement. would make 'tin ntati'Uient regarding Itx pliinn, but what in being -done xciikx for jHt.f, S. S. Start Home Prom Alatka. S. S. Start leturucd ventcrday from Alanka. lie left- here iilxml two menths: ago, in coiiip.iuy with hix brother. I.. II., and .1. F. Curtis, ami , pnicvcded to tt point about '-'(,10 miles went, of Dawxou, wheie .1. II. (iibnou, whom they luul grubxtiiked, had preceed l)eui and lo cated neveral clalmx. They went in to see if tliu proposition wax,, worth work lug and wcrcgraliucd to. Hud the pros pects very Muttering., They xecured none ground and expect o, make a big cleanup next spring. ,..Hi Curtlx re niained in Alaska, I,., 11. StirpiuH goiio to Oakland, California, tn xeiid tliu winter, and S. ,S. ill ,r;biili hem a couple of monthx looking after hix. Inter est n in thix dintrict ind thei,go to Iowa, where he will spend hi remainder of the winter with hix wife.,, He and hit brother will return to , Alanka in tho early spring. , t . T ). Injunction Againit Building Reservoir. Al Hudson came in, u fo,hiys inci from hix I'ine ciei!Kl,plucj;rH1, accompa nied liy his wife, vh)i hax.bccn staying out there for u niouUi. ;, -, ., Mr. Hud sou lias ret in ucd, l tlu mint;, lie says a number n( the iniiviluul,c.aimnwucrH along the creek had hvttiMA work on a reservoir in which to ,tvre.( lie xurpliiM water, no that the operating neaxou could lie prolonged, ,ltut, u,,llitier (Jity company has Ixiugh a iiiulxr of.cainiH near the mnuh of thii.vreuk, secured an injunction uuiiiunl the,proponcdliiprove uieut ami matters are now nt,,u stand- Invetting in Maxwell Slock. I,. ('. Hodgson, of Ki'm-rnc, Minnesota, airixed in town Friday and left Saturday for the Maxwell mine,' in cluiiriliny wltli Otto llerlocker. 'Mr. IMIg'xoii hax re cently piirehaVed'ii lliru'e'ldi'.i'k' of Max well stock, ami 'ennui "hero'"l'o"ixaniln the propertv. They ex'icivtcW to Imi buck in Sumpter lMUi-'hiit' wfll not re turn until tomorrow. 'Afd'-'r a careful, examination of tin' 'nihil'" MV.' 'Hodgson reports tliat he Ix very much pleantili with the outlook fur UIc priix-rty. Ho foie returning homo he will Visit tliu Cracker Creek dixtnet. ' Commercial Coilrge at Baker City. F.uxtcrn Oregon Commercial Collcgu and School of Shorthand and Typewrit ing Ix ginx in linker City Oct. Ill,' HW2. A complete coum- in bookkeeping1, buxl uexx iirllliinetic, i-horthanll mid type wiiling; also all the Normal liraiichex Tuition reiisomible. Write" M. O; l'erry, principal, huker City, for pniectuM. i ! ' TuuoBOXaias r-s8fN?riiiV nitr m