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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1902)
' - IO iTHE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday November 5. 1902 BROWN, ROE AND MOHR New Mining Firm That is Billed to do Big Business. Kverctt llrown, ('lunch; lion iiml An thony Mohr I m vi! fiirini'il a partncrhhip anil will i'iikiiku in tint funeral milling brokerage biihlnchh, cutting out htockh, the liiiHltutHH combination dating (rum November I. Kverctt drown' contract with thi' Crackcr-Ori'iion, iih Kciicral mamiKcr, terminated October ill. Hut MO tonn. Ill 18(10 the Calumet and Ik-el a mines were opened and (pilckly took Hret rank atnonx the worldV produce 'H of copicr. In 1H7II the Hio Tinto mince were re opened after a century of idleneffi. In 18811 tint Ituttc, Montana, camp wan opened, and Iiuh now become the Krcatcul copper producing ilintrivt in the world. r Silver Reached Low Water Mark. Silver Htrnrk low water mark attain hint week, rcachiiiK In London market UHi-HI pence ier ounce, the lowcht in the nixtory ol the world. I lie Hinitt price wan touched on May .'I of t Itin year j an ahmpt decline heinir then caiiHeil 1... 1......... .,,.11:.... 1. I... I'. .11. ..1 u , ij ui-,ii j ri 11111 Minn niu mini i7iuii:n , 2; mm. m u " " L cw m 8s nitw nrriiiiifiMiii'iiL Iiiim heitn a mutter of I "nd a hlackencd demand from China. clow Krottlh, the purlieu thereto liaviii t Aft;r that int, nilver recovered ijrad-1 heen walehinireaeh other all miminer. ny, nml on .Inly It), reached tint price of '.'All-Ill Htnce. TIiIh hii;h price 11 connidi wan , each ucttiiit! on to the othcr'ti curven The hiihine-h arran!enientM were prut" touched in rchpouhe to a connidernbl tlcallyar I upon hcvcral weekH nince, U'r from the Parin mint, and Home hul could not he conNUiumated until the . improvement in the tleuiand from India, ubovtnlulc, uwliij! t' e.xihtini,' uiiKiiKe-1 Since Septemher II, when the price was i,...i,lH iiiuotedat -4, decline Iuih been rather TlntKentleineii, wnrkliiir In harinony, rapid. I.ouilou adviccH have ascribed ( havit already turned one hhj deal, the t,'l wholii movement to inercMhliiK ha I cm , Nile of the Cracker-Oregon, nii.-ntion of i from New Vork. Hut it in almi note which wiih made in Tin: Mi.nkh hint ! worthy that cxportn from Knland have i week, and Iiiivii another one "on," which ,'0,m "' " decline. In luilui, (.rent will ilnuhllcHM Iki cIomiI in a dav or two. ! Hrltulii Iiuh nciiI, Uiiih far in IIHW, 5, They have formulated a plan of cam pai!ii that will Miirely win out; bring much money into the iliHtrict, hciiclit tiiiK all concerned, the illnlrirt , them MleM and their ciiHioinerH. During the winter Kverctt llrown will operate at bin old home in New York ntate, Claude ItiHt at bin former home in Nehruxku and Anthony Mohr will have charge of the oltice here in Suiupter, one of IiIh iiiokI important dutle being to hecure procrtli'M for bin partner, te nell cant. All of iIicimj gentlemen are well and favorably known in Suiupter and throughout the gold iIcIiIh or eiihtern Oregon. They are thorough, reliable IiumIiichn men and can nee uh far into a mountain an the moht famoiiM milling exHrt alle and know a good thing when they nee it. llrown, ItiHi and Mohr are billed to cut much ice in the mining operatloiiH of eantern Oregon, ixx,(KHi Ichh Hiiver than In tut Name air- iod of 1IKII ; to China, fl,lliO,(KK) Ichh; the total decreiiHo from hint year lieiug 110 Ichh than -o per cent. Our own ex portH of Hiiver, during the nine niontlm ending with September, have decreai-ed $5,1107,000 from hiHt year, or 12 per cent. The latent TreiiHiiry report hIiowh do crciine of fll.OOO.OOO in our exorth to (ireat Itritain, but incrt-axe of 1,740, 000 in HhlpineiitH to other parta of North America, and ol 1,080,000 in direct HhipmeutH to .lapan. The world'h pro duction of hiiver laxt year, wiih cHtima ttil by the I'nited Stateh Mint at 176, 700,IH)0 onnceM, um agiiiiiMt 17l',800,(K)0 in 1100, H17,'-00,(KK) in 1800, mid ir7ttKK), tXH) in IHWI. American Mining Newa. SOME FACTS ABOUT COPPER. F.E.O'Rourke&Co. tiSX9MSJ)2838&Mtf3m&7m') J cr- RIGHT 1 EVERYTHINB FRESH PRICES IN GROCERIES $ifW&3!&32&m&&88&&m&S Granite St. Sumpter, Ore. fc , -'-'-' OPERA HOUSE SALOON SUMPTER BEER ON DRAUGHT BILLIARD AND POOL TABLES iMmmWm Agents for Matting ly and Moore Whis key a 2o-year-old whiskey as good as Elixir of Life. All whiskies are out of i bond and guaran teed the genuine ar ticle. Popular re sort for Commer cial Travelers and Miners. SUMPTER, OREGON k1 J Leave your nieiihiire for a hint ol clothehiit Neill Mercantile companyV "Now U the Appointed Time." The O. H. N, Co. Iuih jiiHt ihhiied a haiidhomely ilhihtrateil pamphlet en titled, "Oregon, Wiihhington and Idaho and their rchourcch." 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