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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 17, 1902)
8 THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, December 17, 1902 MAJOR BONTA'S ELECTRIC LINE Biggest Money Making Enterprise in Eastern Oregon Will Cover a Great, Rich, Isolated Emp Since Thk Mimkii published In its issue of November 111 1I111I Cleaver Hrothers hud mild lo Miijor .1. V. Itniitu mill associates of riiiladelphia Ihi) urt-ut Oiegoii Woiiilcr unit Will Cleaver gnmps of mines, mill in 11 niibscipicnt issue tin1 fuel llml llm Philadelphia capitalists wnulil liuilil 1111 electric railway (rum linker City to the Strawberry nioun- UIiih, wlii'ie these mining properties Uril HJIllllll'll, till HOWSp.lperS I if tlliH Ntutn have irinti'il liniiilrrclH nf columns on tin Hiibjcel. They have, almost unanimously, dwelt iimiii the fiict tlmt tliiH enterprise will In nf itieNtiiuulile bciiolit to the country tributary In tlm mines mid through which the electric linn will Ihi built. There cull Ihi ihi difference of oiinim 011 thin hide of the iroHiHitiou ; nor hIioiiIiI there Ih on the other among thonti informed on the merilH of the mining iroiertii'H involved and the re ttourcen of the country to Ih nerved by thin railway. Thk Minkh ventures tlm prediction that it will Ih the hlggcnt dividend ayur in the Went. In the Hint place, for ten or a doen yearn pant all practical mining men have agieed tbat there Mould Ihi mil- ire. empire. The Snnipter Valley railway will give out no information on the subject. An ollicial of that company admitted, however, not ten Iii.vh since that the mud Iiiim paid for itself, all itH eitiipmeiit and improvumentH and hud declared two dividenilH of live H;r cunt each, in a half doen yearn. It Iiiih done better than that. Some idea of the volume of the triinHMtrtatioii business that in In-big carried on in the feet ion of country between the ). It. A: N. rail road mid the John Day valley, to bo covered by thin electric line, can be formed when it n known that about I (KM) head of clock are employed the year round in pulling freight wagon and stages. TIhh new company will do practically all of thin business. It will chut out the Suniitcr Valley road at every coniet iug point for two reasons; Hrnt, it wilt Im standard gauge, rendering nnncccs nary the cxhmisc in time and money of reloading earn at linker City, second, the Sumpter Valley charge a trltle more than one cent a mile ht hunilred hiiiuiIh for hauling freight, the highest rate in the United SIhIch, and when people get an opportunity to escape HoiiH of prolil in working these two! from that imositlon, they are going to leading iniiicH of the Strawln-rry innun-idn it. taiim, if leasonablo transportation rales .nie in the t-iimmer of 1000, the and natinfaet'iry faciliticH could Im w ( writer made the trip from Sumpter to cured. During the past few- yemn the j I'rairie I'ity and thoroughly iuHpccted Will Cleaver Iiiih been exteiiHively tie I the uper .loliti Kay valley. Of that vcloped, practically proven to Im a j country he then wiele: valuable mining property. The Oregon I "If you are mi fortunate an to get a Wonder in nothing more nor Ichh than neat on the, Ihix witli the Htage driver, what itH name implies. There are the run from Klynn Station down to many thoiihaudH of Ioiih of free milling Prairie City, in Tolni Day valley, a dln ore in night that can Ihi iiiarried like j tance of seven or eight miles, which ia building Hloue. Tiuilicr and water, made in the hour between seven and every conceivable convenience for cheap i eight o'clock in the uiorniiig, in ho tie iiiiuiug and milling, except truuspor- j lightful a ride t hat oiic'h ginnl humor in tatiou, in available, mid a combination j almost restored. The bad temper of the of good mining and business methods in l traeler in occaniouil by the inexcusably II Unit in necessary to make thin the inconvenient schedule on which Htagon world'n rccoid-htcaking mining iHiiiiuiru. run between Suiupter and Canyon City. Thin elect 1 ic line will supply the one i "It in a snirittial nleasuro dillicult to needed element to iiiMiic a gigantic Hliccenn. An to the good business jiiilgmeiit of inventing money in the cniiHtructioii of thin railroad, that in a matter that can denci iln w hich one experieucen w ho liven in the high altitude of the Hluo mouiitaiun, where grow no How era, or frultn, or vegetables, to swiftly descend at such early hour into thin fertile vul- be deiininstratcd with the preciniou of ley, where all llourinh luxuriantly ; where a mathematical problem. First and (oremoNt, the territory tributary to thin line in the largest in the United Staten today without a railroad. Were Thk M in Kit to ntate that it in also the richest in uatiital leviuicen, tlmt would he a Htateuieut that nome one would be sure to deny but could not refute. It in also a comparatively old, settled country, liianv of itn resuuicen far nil every (arm lioune tn surrounded by prolitie graiulieldn and rich meadow-, lands; is embowered in fruit trees heavily laden with risl apples, purple plums and yellow pears, intermingled with a riotous profusion of llowern and vege tables. Then, too, on eery hill side thousands of cattle are grazing all of which means plentiful prosperity. "The John Day valley in the liuest vauced in development, especially in ' country out of doom. It possesion a the line 'f agriculture. The road will run through farming, grating, fruit, mineral and timber lauds, a juxtiiHisi lion of Nature's giftn found nowhere (lNIMt leant in such a wealth of pro fusionon the continent. Thk Minkk Iiiih tried in vain to secure nome authentic ntatistics regarding the toimgo handled by the various trans (MirUtiuii companion ill thin isolated combination of ad vantage which render in the nearest approach lo Hrfectiou an a funning country that can be found on the continent. It ban plenty of wood and water, convenient to agricultural and grazing lauds. The usual condition in the abenco of timber, or else tlm long, laborious tusk of clearing laud for farm purines. Here, however, the foot hills are heavily timbered, the val ley, from one to eight miles in width, in practically prairie land, and from every gulch in the mountains, come streams of water with which to irrigate the preg nant hoII. 'TliiH ih preeminently a stock coun try, the cattle being led in winter. H av is, therefore, the principal crop, though, an the altitude averages only altoiit l!O00 feet iiIkivo huh level, anything can be grown there. Considerable grain in grown, but not enough wheat to Hiipply the local demand for Hour. There in u Hour mill near I'rairie City run by natural warm water power that could ho operated the year around, but it cannot secure wheat enough to keep it running half the time. Flour mid pork prodiictH ure brought in from the outside I by every train of freight wagons. Peaches mid griieH are the only fruits which are not raised there, and there Ih no reason, so fur as climate ami soil In concerned, why they ure not on the lint of products." "The visitor stands on one of the high bluffs, mid casts his covetous eye down the beautiful valley and surveys in vision n laud of every promise fulfilled." Tin: Minkk hopes that Major Itnnta and hiHUHHociuten will ultimately decide tn build other branches than the one to I'rairie City, which, it Ih rcMrtud, will surely lie constructed. If he will push one up from Burnt river to Sumpter, he can got llve-your contracts for enough tonnage to pay dividends on the whole line. Theso Philadelphia H'oplo have come in here and corralled the biggest money making projKisltion in eastern Oregon. J. P. HOLLAND WIIOLKSAI.K AND KKTAIL 5eeb, 5lour cmb Probuce Retail Offlce, Wholesale ollice, Granite Street S. V. Hy Tracks. L A Rich Prospect. The Itotlm, 0110 of the newly discov ered proverties in the (iranito creek dis trict nnd owned by Harney Mulligan and Gun. lltirkc, is one that Ih rapidly coming to the front as a valuable pro erty. It in located alxiut Ave miles from Granite near the old Sheridan mine, andcomprisen twocliiims. A vein three feet in width in which there in sixteen inches of ore values; assays often running into hundreds of dollars, liasls-eii uncovered. 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