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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1902)
4 THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday December 10. 1902 PROGRESS ON OREGON MONARCH The First Vein Which Shows on the Surface Has Been Penetrated. Dcxclonmcut 011 tin-Ori'u'on .Monarch, near lint Iti'd Hoy, Iiiih been proi-eeutcd with iimiMiul vim during tho pact three nwn'.liH under thi! Hiipcriutcmlcncy of K. .1. Moffi't. Hcecntly tin llrnt vein thiit cropped on tin; hiirfaco wan on countered liy the croMHi'iit tunnel which !h now in between .Till mid KM) feel from tlie (Mirtnl. Two iinlookeil for oliHtaclcn have combined to prevent t IiIm lede from bciliK penetrated before. Tho llrM reiiHon wan on iiccoiint of u Imril belt of ipiart.ilc that retarded pronrcfH. Next the vein dipped into the mountain at a much ("renter nulo tlinii expected. For hoiiio diHtnnce, however, tho (round Iiiih been highly uiiuorali.cd, and for tho pnxl month they o.xoctcd to htrike the vein any day. SampleM that have been tented are highly Hiiticfactory, mid drilling will he prosecuted on thin lead from now on. Tim main croNhcut tunnel, which in Hitid to Ihi one of the lnre,eH and aleo one of the llncnt paiuplcH of milling work in tlie diMtrict, will be pindiod forward into the mountain a diMauco of from IMM to IH(M) feel. Tho mountain In ipiito ntooi and tint Cain in depth In nearl) fool for foot. Five vt'liiH outcrop on the Oregon Moiiv arch coiupauy'H (round which will ho dcvclniied by UiIh tunnel. Uyncr drilln are lined, air IhiIuk broU(tbl acroHH Congo creek from the ICi'il Hoy coiupreHHor. CoiiHideriuc that the Ited Hoy on the north In now working the richent ore vet iniiieil in that faiiinux property, and T. .1. Sheedy and brother have recently madii a utrlku in the lllack .lack croup on the couth, all thece veinn Mug Dm name an those on the Oregon Moiimcb (round, given the company more on couracemeut. Oregon Monarch block Iiiih udwiiiccd from -.r to U'7'tf eeiita er share. It will lie remembered that a rich blind leilce was struck thirty feet from the entrance of the tunnel, but it has inner been developed on account of be ing so near the surface. A Wind Crtrk CUIm. II. It. lirillln has discontinued work 011 the Kurcka claim on Wind cieek, near the Half Way house, for the winter. During the past summer mid fall a tunnel neatly '.'(HI feet in length has been dm en, follow iuc a crealer part of the distance, a spur from the main eiu. On the surface a well dellued lead from which dee cold has been panned, was traced for a considerable distance. A crosscut tunnel was run to tap ibis ledge, but on m count of the oln dipping into the hill on such an alible, it has not yet lieon peuetiated. .Mr. (irilllu is ilrmlvofthe opinion that valuable ore exist in the immediate in vioriiinontc of .Niniplor, and In time he Iioh'h to prove that Ins theory is cor 1 eel. Oregon Counties. The litritrxl county in the state of Oregon in' lUrney, with mi are of WStl sipiare miles; second in nice is Malheur, with l7rf4 and third in sine ii ljke, with 7S.H4. The smallest county in the stale i Multnomah, with only 4l.1l si)ure mile of territory. In Oregon are nine couutle with over :UXK sqimre miles, iinJ eight with less Until 1000qure t . ' ' miles, and it is remembered that Rhode Island contains, only 10!i:l Hipiare inilei the magnitude uf Oregon suuiu almot incredible. Vet Ithodu Island has the I same strength in the l'nitel States senate us Oregon, ninot" timuM lier su perior in area. Democrat. Blow oil Mountain Top. 1 The Mountain Copper Company, of Itcildiug, California, is considering a novel method for opening up Its famous i Iron Mountain mine in order to over-1 jcome thollres lilimiliL' in lis ore beds. J It is proposed to explode iMO tons of i powder at one shot mid blow off the lop I of tlui mountain. If done it will be1 touched off about New Years. With the work accomplished the company1 will he able to work the property ill the ' open, and not be troubled by the many fuiiicrinf burning ore in the many tun , nels that penetrate the mountains A DOZEN DIFFERENT WAYS. j When the ordinary citizen intends to! go east, or send for friends or relatives to come west, the choice of routes is a J iiiest!ou that always bothers, him. He wan Is to know if tlie same route housed I once, some lime ago, makes tho same time, same connections, if the price is the same, if it coIh tho same to go east iih it diil to come west. I'ossihly, ho has heard or read of famous points of interest in the west or middle west that hoover' looked on the trip he made. Did not see them In-caused ho had not time; did not know ho could for tho same money; did not know ho could cut a Moover. 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