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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1902)
Wednesday, November 12, 1Q02 THE SUMPTER MINER 7 A BUSINESS OFFER THE OLD ARRASTRA GOLD MINING COMPANY NOW OFFERS ITS TREASURY STOCK TO THE PUBLIC WE OFFER ONE THAT AND IS A YOU A BUSINESS PRO will: bear close in 'good, safe inve ITION ION M EN T It is Capitalized for 1,000,000 Shares of the par value of one dollar each. 50,000 shares are re served for Treasury Stock. The Property consists, of almost 100 acres of highly mineralized ground in the Granite creek district. There is a perfect network of veins, ten of which have been proven by development. The ledges range from Two to Twenty feet in width. The values are in gold and gray copper and will average better than 25 per ton. Some of the ore assays several thousand dollars. About 500 feet of development work has been done, consist ing of tunnels, drifts, shafts and crosscuts. This work is being carried steadily forward under an able manager. Ore netting a profit of 75,000 to the former owner has already been taken from the property. Stock is now being sold to accomplish some carefully planned develop ment work, and to purchase the necessary machinery. Quick results and large profits is the aim. This stock can be purchased today for TEN CENTS PER SHARE Write for full particulars concerning the property and the men to WILLIAM H. HEPPE SECRETARY Sumpter, Oregon. MARK ALL CllKCKS PAYABLF. TO E. F. WARNER, TREASURER 8UMPTF.K, OKKGON. The Officers and Directors are men of sterling characterand high standing. The General Manager and Superin tendent of the mine was for a number of years superintendent of the Monumental mine, bringing it to its present producing state. He also held t the OLD, ARRASTRA property for twenty years because of its merits, ancT retains a large interest in the new company.' ' - NEW MINERAL DISTRICT. Good Ore Bodies Found at the Head of Catherine Creek. A new ami rich mineral tliHtriet will soon lie oH!iiuil in eastern Union county that will rival the best in the nortlMcxt. Parties just returned from prosectiug hIkiuI the headwaters ol Catherine creek reMrt the discovery of immense ore bodies in that section. Only crude uuulyxen of the ores have been made, hut it has been demonstrut ed beyond it doubt that they are rich in gold and silver and platinum. The par tie brought out samples of ores which will be it way til. Dr. Lang took some of the ores with him to North Powder thiH week and compared them with the now celebrated Buckeye and Keystone ores of that dis trict. While they resemble each other somewhat, they are not Identical, hut indication) are strong that they are even morcvaluable than the Buckeye ores. Quite a nuniler of Cove eople are in terested in the new district and have made location there. The district will be reached by a wagon road leading up Cutherine creek from I'nion, and will lie of ureal lene(it to Union county. A nhnft lias already been mink on the principal ledge, but ax it ix xituated quite high up in the mountains, it ix quite probable that work will be sus. tended until spring, when It Ib exacted there will he xoine startling develop incuts, and a ruxh of mining men and ,proxcctors will follow. Union Hcpuh lican. Source of Silver Cliff Gold Discovered. A prexx dispatch from Pueblo, Colo rado, says: For twenty yearn people 'have been trying to rind the xource of the ore at Silver Cliff, and at laxt it has .been turned up only half a mile from the town. The strike made j& few days ago by Haskell and Jackson, two veter an axxayerx, seems to be the most im K)rtant in southern Colorado for many yearx. They are now literally iunrrying out the ore and shipping it by the cur load. Immenxtt xunix have Ikwii xeut in vain effort x to Hud the ore which wax known to be there, the search including the Geyser proxpect xhaft, which in '-'(WO feet deep. The ore Inix been found juxt below the xurface on government land. It rutin $44 er ton, and picked specimens yield 7f ouucex of gold and much silver. There in great excitement in all that region, and everything I mix beenxtaked for milex. It in anticipated that Silver Cliff, once the xecoud town in the ntate, will boom again. Dixie Meadows Plan of Development. An improved plan of opening the rich Dixie Meadow x mining procrtiex( near QuurUburg, hax been adopted. Iiintcad of driving further on tli vein from the urosxeut, where the rich ore wax recently ntruck, the management him paxxed to the other xide of the divide and begun a tunnel thut will lie a :(0U-f(Mt crosscut, tapping the vein at 20 feet vertical depth. Hy drifting on the vein a depth of about ViO feet will be attained under the prexeut workings. The quality of ore removed from thin procrty axxurex the management that deep work ix justi fled. Dr. V. C. Belknap, president of the company, says tha. he lias backing lor strong work, and will press develop ment vigorously. Grant County News. Timber aad Homestead Filing. Timber and homestead tilings, an well as final proofs, can be made before Charles H. Chance, United States com missioner, otllce in First Bank of Sump ter building, Sumpter, thus saving ap plicants expense of a trip to a Grande. Shoes of all kinds at Neill Mercantile company's. Same Conditions Will Prevail Here. A few years ago the mines around Kosxland, It. C, could not afford to ship ore valued at less than (III er ton. The charges for freight and smelter treat ment amounted to I4. Later, these rhargen were decreased to $11 per ton, and about a year ago the smelters re duced thu rate for freight and smelting to $11.50 kt ton. A recent contract made by the War F.aglu and ('enter Star mines with thu smelter enables them to ship ore valued at $0 per ton, although they ship a quantity of high grade ore with the low grade. The terms of the contract Initween these mines and the xmelter are $4.M) ht ton for freight and (rent meiit. Thix ix most important for the future prnscrity of Itoxxlaud, the majority of the ore mined around the city lieiugof low grade. With thece cheap rates for freight and smelt iug, there are hundreds of mines in the Immediate vicinity of Koxxland which will become xhipMirs almoxt immediate ly. Kxchuuge. FIVE GOOD REASONS. J. P. Holland Buys Out J. G. Conncll. Ijtst month .1. I'. Holland purchased thu Star hotel building and the .feed busiuexx of .1. G. Council. The tlnal pum In thu truuxactioii Hern xigned this Meek and the deal is now closed. I Mr. Council retires from the ImxinexKi : and Mr. Holland will conduct the husl nexx on Granite xtreet as the retail do I pttrtment and will retain the warehouse ,on the railway truck for his wholesale business. Ijixt month Mr. Holland sold over 11,000 worth of feed and pro duce, the largest mouth biixluesx he hax ever done in Sumpter. Mine Wanted. Wanted a lease and Niud on a group of gold protjectx with u good ore show ing. Send full tarticulars and price to J. W. Winwood, Drexel Building, Phil adelphia, Pa. That the Itio Grrude route is the most popular one between the Pncillc coaxt and the east, ix evidenced hy the fact that thu greatvr kt cent of traurcouti nentnl travelers use it. Firxt, tliu scenic attractions in view from trains are uueqiiuled in the world. Second, thu daily crsnnully conduct ed tourist car excursions Wing especial ly adit p ted for ladies traveling alone or with children, affords a comfortahlu mode of travel at rates within reach of all. Third, it is the only route between thu east and went paxxing directly through Salt li.kn City, or modem ion. Fourth, the choice of two distinct routex through the heart ol the Itocky mountuiiix. Fifth, three fast through trains daily Is'tween Ogden and Denver cquipiicti with every modem convenience. There are many other reaxonx why thix route in the mot cnmlnitabh and enjoyable in thu whole country. You can learn a great deal on the sub ject of through travel, and receive souui very Iteiiutlfiil and interesting Isiokhits, hy calling on or writing to the under signed. W. C. MrllHiiiK, general itgcnt, or M. .1. ItociiK, traveling passenger agent, l-l Third street, Portland, Ore. All the ladies of Sumpter and vicinity are invited to call at Mrn. Chipp's Mil linery Parlors, opposite B.ixche's, aud hiHpect her new line of full and winter hats, oieuiug beginning September 17. Harrison, the Giant Ponder man wants every miner to make his olHce headquarters when in Sumpter. All thu latest noveltiex Neill Mercantile company's. hats at