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VOL IV.
PROGRESS AT
THE SMELTER
Many Men and Teams at
Work Buildinj?
Operations.
If any out; ha harltoicd the idea tlmt
tliu smelter which in being erected here
is of the kindergarten, toy class, his.
mind will be iiuiukly disabused of that
erroneous impression by walking three
quarters of a mile down tho railroad
track and itiHH:ctiug the work now in
progress there.
More than fifty men and u doxen
team are employed, grading the steep
hillside, assembling material, laying tho
massive atone foandation and erecting
building. The laboratory and office
building in now - rapidly. Hearing com
' pletioni It consist of seven large mom ;
one for the dry, another for the wet
assays, the general office and the
superintendent's otlice, draughting,
weighing and cample rooms. Ah 1b the
custom with all cull-Hern, the lire assay
will be employed to arrive at the value
of ore Itought. The acid process the
company will into (or checking up, also
the general rule.
The work of erecting the smelter
building proper, separated by about
200 feet from the laboratory, in now
being uotniuuuced. That tortion to Ik)
devoted to the automatic campler will
be the first to be completed, and the
iiiuehiuery instulled therein without
delay. The work is being ruNhed an
fact an puHHible and the buildingH will
lie completed alxnit the lirst of the year.
Already several carloads of machinery
havu arrived, iiicludiug the gigantic
rock cruchor. Other carloads v ill come
in every few days, until all is here. It
1h now being unloaded at the foot of the
hill, from a temporary side track. The
M:riiiaueut spur will be constructed high
up the hillside in a few weeks, and
some of the tiiachiuery will have to be
reloaded anil hauled up on care! From
thin track all ore will bu duuited into
the bins.
The preNenl timeltiug capacity will be
200 tone. The management in now con
tracting furore, and it in reliably dated
that almost enough ban lieen secured,
011 the basis of a certain number of toim
being delixercd daily, to insure a regu
lar supply equal to the capacity of the
ulant. It niitilit le well lor those who
own prorticH from which they can
now or soon will be able to chip, to
interview General Manager Mueller or
Siieriuteuilaut Xeel, that they may be
Mure to centre a market for their out
put. Tmk Mi.nkk is artlciilarly pleaced to
be able, from obcervatiou and "tin op
portunity to judge, through business re
latione, to predict that there will be
little or no friction betwetn the smelter
SUMPTER. OREGON,
and the ininere. The gentlemen in
charge are fair, square, honect business
men, who would ccoru to recort to any
questionable methodM to get a liuaucial
advantage of any one and that ic cay-'
ing more for them than can lie eaid of.
some ieople who buy mineral bearing
rock, the entire import of which the
writer ic fully cognizant.
Bunch of New Handsome Offices. ,
All of the rootue in the new Wllcoii
brick block, cix in number, have been
rented and live are already occupied.
.1. II. Bobbins has the two on the Gran
ite ctrcet corner, fitted up in elegant
stylo and. witli every conceivable con
venience for hia mining otlice. Dr.
11 rock ia in the next one, partitioned
Into ccparaie apartments for reception
and consulting rooniH, handsomely
furnished mid equipped with all the
nerve racking inHtntmenta of lift pro
fession. The Water and Klectrlc com
panies, both in charge of K. K. Mc
Cammon, occupy the next room, having
moved hi otttco, from Center street.
The Alexander Clothing- coniany, of
Baker City, has rented the next one and
will put in a stock of goods at an early
dap. Bobbins Hrotherc, mining engi
neers and assayers, have the alley
corner room and are fitting it up with
all the appliances of the business.
Expensive Advertising- Milter.
VV. II. W. Hamilton left Saturday on
his semi-occasional pilgrimage east,
through to the financial glutted centers
on the Atlantic seaboard, to turn a doeu
or so mining deals. He says he is
taking along with him a hunch of the
best proositions that were ever layed
before a mine-hungry eastern syndicate
not a gold brick in the lot; but every
one of them the making of a mine, lie
also carried, with him the most ex
pensive collection of advertising matter
that ever left eastern Oregon ; that can
not fail to convince the most skeptical
that this is a great gold producing re
gion. It consists of fWiOO worth of
artistic jewelry made of native gold,
nuggets, pocket gold ami polished
ipiart.. lie will give this away where
it will do the most good.
Machinery for the Blue Bird.
Wheeler fc (Jo., of New York, bankers,
brokers and hustlers, who are finan
ciering the Ulue Bird Gold Mining
company, that owns -.'. rich property
adjoining the Itcd Boy, write Tin: Minkh
under date of October 'M, that they had
that day bought from the Sullivan
Machinery company two carloads of
machinery for that mine, paying cash
for the Mime; that the company does
not owe a dollar and has plenty of
money for all contemplated work in the
treasury. Thin two carloads of machin
ery does not include the stamp mill.
It has not yetlteen decided as to what
make of milt is best adapted for the
ore. As soon as this is settled, one
will Ihj Isaight and installed without
delay.
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NOVEMBER 5, 1902.
TALK OF THE TOWN.
A sou was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Van Duyn Sunday morning,
Dr. Ilrock attending.
A. M. Keltic was in town today, ,
kicking himself for having moved from I
Sumpter to linker City.
I'mfecMir Hierman left Monday for
Portland, on buciuiss connected with
the smelter. He cxiccts to he ahent
about a week.
Al Gciser is in Sumpter trying to buy
come choice business procrty at a price
four times greater than he cold it for
three years ago,
.loliu Briggs is down from Olive lake,
visiting his family foru few days. He
is BUiterintending the work of develop
ing that great water (tower.
Judge Layburu, of Minneapolis, rep
resenting h syndicate that bought an
Interest in the Goldhug-Urlxxly, baa
been in town for several days past.
A. T. Harris, manager of the Geiser
Grand at Baker City, nixed up the situ
ation Unlay. He denied, point blank,
that ho has a covetous eye on Hotel
Sumpter, without winking said eye.
M. K. Bain left yesterday afternoon
for the east, to promote a big mining
deal that he has on the string. He will
make his headquarters in St. Paul for
some weeks, until he gets the money
in his hands.
Mr. Holterts, who has made many
friends lit eastern Oregon during the
last few months, while selling Iteming
ton typewriters (or a Portland firm, lias
accepted the position of private secre
tary for Mayor.1. II. Bobbins.
County Recorder Bob Henry was
circulating among his friends here
Saturday. He says the business trans
acted in his otlice last mouth was the
largest since the county was organized
come three hundred years ago, more
or less.
II. P. Hall has bought the lliiulsil
restaurant on Mill street and will run
it on the short order plan and keep it
omjii all night. Mr. Hall ic an exper
ienced hand in the restaurant busiuecc
and will no doubt make it a stpuhtr
eating house.
Neil J. Soreuseii, general manager,
and W. .1. .lohueou, treasmer of the
Klkhorn Consolidated company, which
owns and operates the Maxwell, came
in from that procrly yesterday. They
rejtort that the recent strike is getting
better every day.
Dr. K. W. Mueller returned Saturday
from Portland, where he went with the
eastern Oregon delegation to protest
against the Blue mountain forest reserve
iniquity. Yesterday he went out into
the Greenhorns, to look at the face of a
tunnel and an ore dump.
"Mrs. Spaulding, accompanied by her
grand daughter, little Miss Madge Kills,
left yesterday for Boston, to spend the
NO. 9.
winter with her daughter, who is at
tending the conservatory of mucic there.
Mrs. A. W, Kills accompanied them as
iiir ac Baker City, returning today.
Anthony Mnhr went to Baker City
Mouday, to u. eel hie wife and little
daughter, who liae come out from
Milwaukee to make Sumpter their
future home, Mr. Molir has Isiught
from A. P. Goes a recidenceon Columbia
street, near Auburn, which he is now
occupying.
Dick Neill cays the N. ill Mercantile
company cold more goods and handled
mote each during Octols'r than in any
other mouth, with one exception, since
the company started In business here,
three years ago. The exception was
last December, which, of course-; In
cluded the holiday trade.
Judge I'asset, of Omaha, has la-en ill'
town several days this week, talking
with l. 1.. Kitten about old times,
when tie lectured on taw to a data of
which Mr. Kitten was a member He
will tvturn home. awl-to 'thubetMjiia-,
soon as the stamps now being inetalleid
on his Greenhorn pmiierty nVgln lo
ll rop on his rich free gold ruck. (
Robbtns Brothers, Engineers and Assa'ytnv
W. W. Bobbins and Chester C. Hob
bine, brothers of Mayor Bobbins, have
formed a partnership under the name
of Bobbins Brothers, and will oten an
assay otlice in the alley corner room in
the new Wilson block on Mill street.
Two glass partitions are Iteh.g put in
and no expense is being spared to make
It one of the most comnleto offices for
aseaving In the northwest. Both of
these gentlemen are experienced mining
men and understand their business,
thoroughly and will no doubt do a
flourishing hiielnces at- coon as they can
get in chape to traneact business.
They expect to be ready within a week
or ten days W. W. Bobbins will act
as conculting engineer and ('. C. will
do the itssayinu.
A. P. Gots Coming Back to Sumpter.
A. P. Goes, president of the Bunk of
Sumpter, who for come mouths past him
Is-on personally looking after the affairs
of bis branch bank at Canyon City,
spent several days here this and last
week. Some time since he solil tlie
bank over there, but agreed to remain
with the institution until the new ow it
ers could net the run of the business.
His friends in Sumpter will 1st pleased
to learn that he will return here it (tout
December I, to remain toruiancntly.
Although he already owns a lialfdoy.cn
or more residences here, he will build a
home for himself and wife, one that
they can enjoy the comforts and luxur
ies of life in for years to come.
The celebrated Guild's "the ta-er ef
gissl cheer" always on draught at Ditit
phy's The Club.
T. G. Harrison, agent for Giant pow
der coiiiMuy.
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No headaches from Giant powder. '
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