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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1902)
Wednesday, December ?, 190a ADVANCE ADVANCE THE SUMPTER MINER If you want to make an investment in a mining enterprise, Investigate Ours. There is no system more fair and equal for all concerned than we have adopted. ADVANCE YOU need not fear that the large interest will swallow up the small interest. All stand on the same footing and share alike in the product of the mine. Our company is conducted on the most eco nomical principles to insure good returns. No man shall receive a salary unless he performs service beneficial to the company. Better pay two miners three dollars each for a day's labor than to pay six dollars for the services of a needless manager or superintendent. We can place you where the investment of a small amount of money will bring you large returns. We ask an opportunity of explaining to you our system of conducting a mining enterprise. We want to prove to you why and how we are bound to be successful. We want to tell you how to secure good mining stock at a low figure. We would not ask you to place your money where we would not place our own. Taking all things into consideration, we can offer you the best opportunity for investment that you can find anywhere. It does not require a fortune to become interested with us, where the indications point to speedy and most profitable returns. We are in this business to make it a success, and will do it by systematic development and good management. We invite the strictest investigation of our properties and our company. Write to us for full particulars how you may become in terested in a good mine for small investment, and we will convince you that every word we advertise is tme. We can furnish you the best of references. Address ADVANCE ADVANCE MINING CO. SUMPTER, OREGON ADVANCE GEOLOGICAL HULLETINH. Cold and Silver Gimpared With Other Mintr.il Products. Sunn li'ii month iio it comparison Wllrt luildll between till' ValllO of lln K"l'l anil Milvor products of the I'nited SIhIch Mini tint Milne of other groups ( ""r iiiini'riil producta iih m'I forth liy the United .Stales ticoloiciil Survey in "Mineral Kesouiocs of (lie United Stiiti-h," for tint I'ltlciiiliir year IIKH). Till' It 1 1 1 1 lilt I Mlllllllll for I '.Ml, jUSt isSllftl, ii'iinitM it similar comparison for last yt'.n. In rouinl numbers, the viiliin of the Hold iroliii't was f's.OOO.OOO, anil of the hihi't ihmIiii'I the nlue was $71,000,000 nit money tcoiuilii! value), mill $XI,IMH, 000 as im't.il (I'oiiiiniTi'l.il value) An metals, then, koIiI iiiiiI silver pro. ilut'tH uere Milueil tit u little leu tliiui f 1 1'.' 000,000 , iih money, they were worth $ I .Ml ,000 ,000 Tin' corrcspiuulini! lltsuroH fol WOO neie $1 Ifi.OOO.OOO ami tl.MI.OOO, (Hi 11 lnH for IIKH nf ner throe mil lion. 'I'lm copper hiniii'iiI hi IIKH valued Hi $87,00(1,000; the loud was valued, iih in Itlthl, at ('..'.1,000,000; ami r.iuo wan pro tluiV'l In the value of over $11,0(10,000. The t'iM-i , lead ami zinc products ltK)l win worth fl.tMI.OOO inure an metals thin our gold ami silver were worth hh metals, although the value of the copper product .- i 1,000,000 lecM than in 1000 The t'outliiiied valueN of abrasive milt" ('ii.ilM.iifi'heuiieal imiteriali.of pigments mid of iithei mlsccllanou iiiiueraht, mmiuutiiii' to ahont f:W,IHHI,(HHt in HH), show tint the) were wiuth alumni half iin much .t the gulil pioput'ed, and about fr,KKI,KKl more than silver an u metal. The Mitit'ltiral motorials produced in I'.MI, tlie liuildinc Meno, the chty ptoliict, the ceineutH, valued at I about tl8-',00n,(HH), exceeded the k"M and silver liy 7(I,(HKI,(KH), if the com mercial or metal value of hiker in taken, and hy flL'.OOO.OOO, if silver in taken, at itn coiuiiii; value. Iron urti anil itn product, the metallic Ii.ihjh of ourciviliation, increased notably in iiiaiitity hut decreased in still greater proportions in value in 1001 us compared with 1100, Yet, niitliuilliHtaiiiliiiK a loss of nearly $IH,000,IMH) in value iih compar ed with ItHH), thu pi); iron produced in IIKH exceeded the metal value of the pild mill silver by 1:10,000,000, ami their comhiiicd coining value hy ).i,(MH),(HH). Compared with the mineral fuels, coal, petroleum, mid natural pis, produced in I'.KH, the combined coiuini; value of the pild anil sliver in exceeded liy f'JOU.OOO, 000, ami the combined metallic value is as tll'-VHKl.OOO to f ll'.'.OOO.OOO, an excess of 1:10,000,1100 (if the necessary fuels over the precious; metals. Christmas Number of the Deserel News. UihI year the Poseret Nown, of Salt Lake, issued a very handsome illustrated t'hristimiH edition on Utah and Colorado, which has been excelled liy few of the laro dailies (if the country. This year the NewH will issue a Christ mas uiiinder tin I'tah and Idaho and the resource of those two states will lie attractively set forth and will be well illustrated with half-toned views. I'arties ilesiriun information in regard to either of those states will llndwhat they are looking fur in the Christmas number (if the IVsorel New 8. T, (i, Harrison, aont for (iiaut hw tier company. All the latest novelties in hats at Neill Mercantile company's. Asiaticsilvor market. Ijirm' ipuintitieH of Mexican silver are coming here from China, an it in believed that much foold is leinn circulated here on account of pnvcriiinent cxpondittireH. The fact in that American trade in coing to China and Iohhoh in nilver are ceriotiHly affect inn the insular treasury ami busiuens interests nouorally. Itapidly chiiMRiiic rates embarrass thebusinosH houses, making it almost impossible to fix prices. The native olllclals are bonin itiji to iH'titioi) for the payment of their salaries in o,old, ami tlie domnnd for lixed state currency in universal, Tim secretary of liumicc hii.vh: "There Is notl.iiiu to indicate a more hopeful future for the currency ipiest ion. It will probably be an had iih now, if not worse, until congress acts and nives iih a stable currency. No hoadaclios from Giant K)wdt'r. SILVER'S LOWEST PRICE. Sells at San Francisco and New York for 47 U Cents an Ounce. A New York dispatch, dated Novcm Ik'I 'Jit, sayn: TihIiivV further declines in the prices of silver lixed a new low record in the history of the world. Silver was tiioted hero at IT.'jcuntH per ounce, and the same notation wan named liy San Francisco. London dealers offered only '-'I 7-Stl er ounce. ! The low price was much commented upon in hanking circles, causing much uneasiness anions e.Mirters and mer chants of this country lining husinesn with China and other points in the far east. To bankers, however, the most sinntlicant news of the day were the cable advices to the effect that the, Siamese government had instructed the I mint to cease immediately the coinage! QTllPlQ FflP Al F Coincident also with this development was the decline totlny of silver at Bom hay to a level several pointH below 1in don. An interesting fcatuie of tlio drop in silver vvhk the advnntage reaped by lauudrymen and small mercluuitH of tlie Molt street district through being able to purchase silver bills at ho low a rate. They Mocked dow n town today, cash in hand, sending heavy remittance! to friends at home. Mont of them were surprised at the largo sums allowed for the amount turned in. A wire from Manila of the same date says : Silver lias suffered a further de cline in value. The government has in sued a proclamation makini: tlieollicial rate i!i0 for UK) gold. Tlie former rate was i!,'0. The possibility of tlie adoption by the Straits Settlements ot a gold standard anil reports current that Mexico is about to abandon tlie silver standard have greatly weakened the Indian and Hynon 01 Archuleta Oil 00 Navajo Oil -10 Constellation 08 Sumpter (iail Horden 01 Maryland 03 Listen Lake L'.OO Northwestern Con 1.-5 WANTKli Hluo Hird Sampson We have a prospect with a tine ore showing anil several hundred feet of tunnels that can he bought at low price if taken at once. Wilson & Bucknum MINING IXVKST.MKNTS Gleaeou IIUIk SUMITKK, OIIK.