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THE SUMPTER MINER
Wednesday, October 22, 1902
SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW
THE CONSTELLATION
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STOCK
THE PROPERTIES OF THE
CONSTELLATION GOLD MINING COMPANY
Comprising Ten full claims, Mill Site and Water Right, are
located in the rich Cable Cove District of the Sumpter Gold
Fields. Upwards of 1000 feet of Development Work prove a
.Continuous Ore Body, $ to 8 feet wide, from which Fifty
assays give values of 4.50 to 39.50 per ton. j The
officers and directors of the company comprise some of the
best known mining operators of this district, j The
Company is Incorporated for 1,000,000, Par Value Shares 1 ;
One-halt, or 500,000 shares, is reserved as Treasury Stock
for Development Put poses. To provide an immediate De
velopment Fund the company offers to the investing public
100,000 SHARES OF TREASURY STOCK
AT TEN CENTS PER SHARE
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BFUND
NEW
MINE
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FOR PROSPECTUS, MAPS, ETC., ADDRESS
I Constellation Gold Mining Company I
C. H. McCOLLOCH, j SECRETARY
P. O. Box 185 Sumpter, Oregon
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IN RED BOY DISTRICT.
Dozens of Properties Being;
Opened Rich Rock From
the Blue Bird.
Contractor Nordyke lelurncd Satur
luy (mm tin- KxcclNior, wheitt lit' Iiiih
been etiKum'il for M'rril week erecting
huildiiigN and tli pillow fr.tiiiu fur the
pinking 1 1it 1 1 1 now being hiHiiilli-il theie.
I 111 HII)'H till' llllll, ImIIIcIH llllll Millie
other p.trtii u( tin machinery arc on the
ground itinl il kIioiiIiI not rctpihe much
time to lut vt tin' 1 tlti 1 it in operation.
Mr. Nordyke brought hack with lilui
h large, i-plcnillil Hpcciinen oi tiro mini
(hit llhut Itinl. It Ih hilcipmrU, Inter-
niHTmsl with black, which earrien tin'
valucit, t'liiiriti'ti'riNtlt' o( I lie tlinlrict ;
identical with t lut t found in thi) Itt'il
Ituy, Sti hi in tt'titlottt K. .1. Thorp in mi
old Hcliooliiiiiti' of lilt mnl lu naturally
fH'iit iinit'li uf li in Hpare tittit' ut tin
Hint' Itinl, tin' itiljeiniiit: iniH'rt,v to tin
Kxcclninr, talking over olil tiiuen. lie
went through till the wnrkiugH, ami !
clitic there in not inoii' promising
proposition in tin' ilihtiit't, The tunnel,
which in being ilrivi-n rapidly, ih now in
good oik anil plenty of it. Ah wanes
peeled, wlii'ri' tin' itiwh vein lm' lieen
out, tlio rock ih cry rii'li.
Ilo H.tyN tlmt in tin' ltd! I toy, like
other ilixlrii'th contiguous to Suniiter,
Uicru jn great activity; that iIociih of
propertied are. being opened up, employ
itig hundred of miner ; that ccry iiiiin
U'lieveN he Iiiih a lxinaiu.il and in hack
inn hln judgment with bin money to hi
individual limit.
Big Uiiiuoni Found In Mac's Luck.
i Walter It. Allen, while panning ore
from the M.tc'n I .tick Sunday, found a
I inaguiliccnt diamoml, worth at leant1
I t.MH). It I1111I iilri'iulv Ih'i'ii eul mnl nol-l
inheil mid thin in how it happened to lie
there, lie, .1. II. Mi-Callum and Ccorge I
Iturrctl, of (irauitc, had heen i-unipling
the mine for what purpose !h another
ntery that may lie related later. Any
way, after the work wan completed, Mr. I
I turret t dixenvered that lui had lout the
hit; "tune from Iiih ring. A ceareh wiih
at nnee iiiHlitutcd and prosecuted for
several liours in vain. Witlter Allen
suggi'Mctl that the Ioomu riM'k and earth
in the ImUoiii of the tunnel where mini
pies had heen taken he gathered up mid
panned. Thi wiih done and the third
panfull contained the hrilliant.
Air Drill Boring Seven Fed a Day.
The air drilln now in operation at the
Oregon Moiimeh are driving the cross
cut tunnelH in at the rate of hovcii feet a
day, notwithstanding the fact that the
rook in the hurtled ever encountered in
that district mi says SiiH'rintendeiit
Tom Moffett. The air in supplied from
the Ked Hoy comprcHHor. The inauage
meiit cHtitnateH that the llrnt ledge will
Ik cut in iiIhiiU M'venty feet, judging
by the ntitcroppings, hut it in iMissiblc
that a liliud ledge may Ik- encountered
at any time, as stringers of iuart. are
aheady hccii ill the face of the tunnel,
mid they rarely extend so long a distance
from a vein.
Contract for 550 Ft on Yellow Daisy.
T. W. Davidson, who is handling the
Yellow P.iisy fur the eastern 'gentlemen j
to whom he recently Mild' the pnerty
Iiiih let a contract for driving JWMl feet of
tunnel to S. (!. M. Ciates, of linker City.
The work will lie coiuuiciiccdnt once mid
continue uniuterruptedjj'. The tunnel
will be run in on the ledge. The Yellow
Daisy in one of the promising proscctH
in the lied Hoy district that exin'rts de
clare it in undoubtedly "the making .of a
initio.
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BLUE BIRD
MINING
COMPANY
Capital $200,000
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FULL PAIP AND NON-ASSESSABLE
MINES LOCATED IN GRANITE MININtt DISTRICT. EASTERN OREGON
50.000 SHARES OFFERE D
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nj prorciui
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