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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1902)
VOL. IV. OVERLAND AND ESMERALDA WORK RESUMED ON THESE TWO PROPERTIES. M. E. Bain Turned Ibc Trick While EmI Reached Home Saturday Has a Hen 00 That Will Hatch Out a Large, Luciout Bird for Sumpter Worked at the Head ol the Lakes. M. K. Hain returned Saturday from a two months trip vast Ha flrat went, to ,tiie state ta'r at Minneapolis, where siiie.iilay ed n leadlng.role.wlththoKIIIen, Warner & Stewart aggregation, In ad vertising the gold fields of eastern Ore gon. They had an excellent small col lection of gold ruck, dust and nugget and many thousands of pieces of litera ture regarding our mint's. They distrib uted the latter and showed the former us corroborative evidence of the truth of printed statements and their own. Mr. 11a in nays he in sure much giss.1 mum ac complished. From there he went to the head of the la ken and, with Duluth as his hcadqtiar tern, he visited the surrounding towns, in MiuneMita, Wisconsin and Mirhitian, doing missionary work, in conjunction with Mr. Snyder, who is widely and fav orably known all through that region, lie cays the country is prosperous and that the lumbermen are acquiring an appetite for liiiiK'H. Ah an evidence that he did business while iiwuy, immediatejy on his return he put forces of men to work on the Overland, adjoining the California, in the Cable Cove district, mid the Ksiner alda, Clicker Creek district. .Mr. Haiti haH controlled the Overland for iilsiul a year, but owing to oueortwo uufortuniite, unavoidable complications, has not made satisfactory headway in developing the property. He says that now, nowever, his troubles in that direc tion are all over with, and he will rush that promising prosect into the list of .producing mines an fast as money and work can do it. Already a good vein of ore is uncovered, from which shipments can lw made with little additional work. Large ore ImmMch could bo reached at a depth of 1000 feet, by running a (100-foot tunnel from the California lower work, lugs. Just before leaving for the east, Mr. Kaiu secured an option on a large block ' of F.smeralda stock. Since his return, he bus taken this up and, as stated above, put men to work there, extending the present working tunnel further in the vein. At one point on the ledge there is a 35-foot shaft, the Isittom of which is in three feet of ore that aver ages twenty-five dollars in gold er ton. Mr. Hain has one or two other big SUMPTER, OREGON, QCTOBER 15, 1902 deals on, to consummate which he will probably have to leave for the east again in about a week. One of these will be of great interest and benefit to Sumpter, particularly and directly. On his trip west lie was accompanied by C. O. Baldwin, who is here to invest money, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hogers, Mr. and Mrs. II. O. Swnin, all of Duluth. REPORTS FROM THE FRIDAY. Stamp Mill Being Ioitallcdi Timber De livered for Underground Work. Otto Mcrlockcr was in Haker City Sun day and had a short talk with Nell .1. Sorensen, who passed through on his way from Chicago to Portland, where he will attend the state Knights of Pythias meeting, as a representative from the Sumpter lodge. He and Mrs. Sorensen, who haa been visiting friends there for everaljveefct, will return Jiome Satnr day or Sunday. On his way west Mr. Sorensen stopped over at Boise and made a trip up to the Friday mine, at Pearl. He confirms the roort, frequently published of late, re garding the great activity which now ob tains in that camp, for which the exten sive oeratiouH now Itclng carried on at the Friday is largely responsible. The stamp mill for that mine has been purchased and ii now being installed. Stamps will ho dropping at a not distant day. It has leeu definitely decided to sink the shaft another 100 feet, which will give a depth of 230 feet ; also to run (KM) feet more of levels, which will put in sight large quantities of high grade ore. Timbers for all this work have been de livered on the ground. The superintendent of the famous Checkmate mine, which adjoins, after inspecting the Friday recently, Mated that it Is even a more promising mine than the Checkmate wits at the same stage of development. Elimr Cleaver Buys 'Hall of Willie Boy. K. K. Cleaver came in last evening f nun the (Juart.lmrg district. On this trip he bought for the Copicr Itidge Mining company the one-half interest of K. W. Mclutire in the Willie Hoy group of six claims. This prniicrty adjoim that of the Copper Itidge, which in situ- ated next to Zoeth llouser's Standard. The ore in this ledge runs high in both gold and cop)H'r, and a big, rich mine is going to I ? leveloed there some day, Mr. Ilouser is now concentrating ore from the Standard at the old Ijiurance mill, near by. The concentrates are said to curry fliM ill gold and plenty of copper. Timber and Homestead Filing. Timber and homestead tilings, as well as final proofs, can be made before Charles II. Chance, United States com missioner, olllce in First Hank of Simili ter building, Sumpter, thus saving ap plicants exieuse of u trip to La (Jrandu. Use Giant powder, fuse and caps. IRRIGATION STATISITCS Special Agent of Census De partment in Sumpter. I ('. .). Hlauchard, sccial agent of the census department at Washington, Is in Sumpter today. .1. A. Illlliker, owner of the Monte Cristoaud Goldbug groups, an old acquaintance at MinucaMillH, found him at (taker City several days since mid took him on a trip through the Cracker Creek district, going in from lluiues. They climbed the divide this morning and came to Sumpter from Hourne. Mr. Illauchurd's mission to the Inland Empire at.thla.time ila to secure ad- uiiiiiiiHi inu lor inn iiepnriiiituit re garding Irrigation, lie is dealing en tirely with facta as they exist today, and has nothing to do with the scientific side of the problem. His work is to secure tacts mid figures relative to the different kinds of crops growr. on irri gated lands and the quantity ; the num ber of miles of irrigating ditches, ca pacity of reservoirs mid all information obtainable us to the water supply. Tliis information will be used largely by the Geological survey, in making its plans and estimates ou the irrigation system which the general government ban undertaken for the scml-arld sec tions of the West. Ill this connection Mr. Hlauchard lm parted the interesting bit of information that there is now available for irrigation in Oregon alone fH00,(HK. Tor this, he says, the stale has Congressman Tongue and Senator Mitchell to thank. The former, cHtccially, M'rsisteutly insisted and dually succeeded in inserting in the irrigation hill the clause providing that at least llfty per cent of the revenue re ceived from the sale of public lauds, he appropriated for irrigation purposes. Air. Hlauchard is a newspaper man in Washington and probably knows exactly what he is talking about, on this phase of the subject. The irrigated lauds will Im subject to homestead entry and will be disposed ol at the usual price, plus the prnMir tioual cost a-r acre of Irrigation im provements. This money will again Im turned into the same fund, providing practically a crctual source of revenue for this iuiHrtant work. The govern ment will confine itself almost ex clusively to the construction of storage reservoirs, and the settlers themselves will have to dig the ditches. Mining Man of Wide Experience. K. Simpson, u mining man who has operated in many cauis in the west and of late years has mined principally in Montana, was in Sumpter u couple of days lust week. He fame here to see SuHrintciidcnt J. II. Hrnwn, of the NO. 6. Oregon King, with whom he is interest ed in a property near Malheur City. It is a very rich free gold proposition, not very extensixely lcvcloicd, though with enough in sight to justify the erection at an early dav of a small stamp mill. Mr. I Simpson says he knows all the mining j districts of the west that have made uny I sort of a record as gold prislucers, .that I eastern Oregon Is tin' peer of the la'st of them, everything considered, and that I Sumpter Is the throbbing heart of the great industry. He was associated with Arthur Hrnwuc, the mining engineer, lit Montana, ami says that gentleman haa few equals ami no suicrlor in his profes sion, Mr. Simpson left direct for the Malheur mine, to arrange for commenc ing operations. Another Big Deal On. I lerimrd McDonald, of ltossland,H.t:.r mining expert (or Governor Mcintosh, and Itola Radish, proprietor of the Ha ker City sampling works, passed througlt Humt'r'4ast-week,' en'ruulfv ' they"tje elared, for a hunting trip tolIarUey lake. Hut, somehow, they got switched off from that destination and landed in thu Greenhorn mountains, where they put in several days examining a mining property. Neither cared to talk about the matter on their return a day or two- since. There Is another big deal "on." Two Strikei in the Maxwell. At the Maxwell last week two good oro ImhIIch were encountered, Isith in the IHUO-foot working tunnel. These are tint ledges that the old company had sought, in vain for many months', at this depth. The Veins hsd been explored in the up per workings, hut down Mow could not la found. The tirst was found after driving Iwcnly-M'tcii feet, the other fif teen feet hctnud, after cutting through the llrst ledge, liolli are said to Ihi sal isfactory, as to size and values, though the management is not disposed to talk about the strike. Otto llcrlockcr wasat the proicrty when the last vein was en countered. He admits that "there in nothing the mallei with the rock." Commercial College 'at Bkcr City. Knstern Oregon Commercial College and School of Shorthaiid and Tycwrit lug Isgliis In Haker City Oct. 13, IDOL'. A complete course in Isiok keeping, busi ness arithmetic, shorthand and type writing; also all the Normal branches. Tuition reasonable. Write M.O. Perry,, principal, Maker City, for prospectus. All the ladies of Sumpter and vicinity are invited to call ut Mrs. Chipp's Mil linery Parlors, opposite llasche's, ami inspect her new line of fall and winter hats, opining begiiiniui! September 17. The celebrated Guild's "the beer of g(Msl cheer" always on draught at Dun phy's The Club. Wouldn't that jar yer? swder. What? Giant Mi ulng (lei (Is for ale ut this oltice.