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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1902)
Wednesday, December 24, 1902 THE SUMPThR MINER 19 OVER ON THE GREENHORN RANGE MANY MINES AND MILLS BUSY AND PRODUCING. Notes on Whit it Being Done on the Many Mining Group A Pie (or the Chang ing of the Boundary Line Between Baker and Grant Counties. Sam Stott, attorney, notary and pros pector, Iihh been in the minion metropo lis of eastern Oregon for the past week attending to business mutters here after a busy season sent amidst tho mines and projects of the Greenhorn moun tains. From Mr. Stott a reporter of Tun MiNF.it was able to gather the following information relating to that thriving and progressive portion of these exten sive gold fields. The Psyche 20-stamp mill will soon start, but the llrst run will 1h on ore from the Morning mine, property of Frank Couper, Iku Simmons and ' Herpetic! Ames. Tim owners of HiIh producer will mill all their ore which is free milling and runs less than f 40 per ton. They have large quantities of shipping ore which runs up in the hundreds of dollars per ton which can bo rendily moved now on account of thosnow roads making trans portation much easier. At the Phoenix, the mill is now in thorough shape, and was to be started on last Friday. A long and successful run is expected. Ten stamps are being continually operated at the Don Juan, and the ore being milled is said to be fine. A hoist has lieen erected at the Vir ginia mine, and it is the intention of tlio owners to install a mill in the near future, us the apearanco of the pro erty now justifies that method of hand ling the product. The Kldorado group, of seven claims, lying between the Don Juan and Phoenix, have been lionded to John T. English, of Sumpter. A number of men and teams are at work completing the road to the Temp est mine. The last three and a half miles of this necessary means of com munication will be a snow road. This improvement is necessary to get in the milling ami concentrating machinery now on the way. This protierty pro duces milling, concentrating and melting ores. Klaborato tests have been made and it is not improbable hut that a matting plant, to handle a por tion of the output, will be built some time in the future. The owners of the Baucette have made arrangements to crush quite a quantity of ore from their mine at tlio Quebec mill. They will have a down grade pull of four and a half miles over the snow, which will make transpor tation an easy matter. At the I X L group, Manager Fred J. Kelly has erected a whim on the Hidden Treasure vein, so as to sink on that lead as well as on the I X L, where a steam hoist has been in operation for several months. The I X L company own about 1K0 acres of patented claims in one group. They have considerable high grade ore in sight and on the dumps, but are in no hurry to put np a reduction plant. Outside of those mentioned, there are many prospects being developed. It is Mr. Stott'a intention to compile a four sheet map of the Greenhorn district, as he has made a study, and is familiar witlrevery mine, prospect and point of interest in that advancing section. There is one important matter in which, Mr. Stott states, all residents and property owners of the Greenhorn section are vitally interested. That is, that the boundary linn between Haker and Grant counties should Ik dctinitely settled, and it is urged by the residents of Greenhorn city that a portion of Grant county at that point should be cut off and attached to Haker county. As the boundary line now is, it fol lows the water shed between the tiibu taries and head waters of the John Day on one side and those of Powder and Htirnt rivers on the other. Often the tops of the mountains are so tint it is dillictilt to determine in which direction the water flows. The concensus of opinion apiears to be that legal subdi visions should lie taken as u new boun dary between the two counties. This, it is claimed, would prevent the mistaKe which is often made of recording claims in the wrong county. Of the complications which may arise under the present conditions, the case oftheltoss Gulch quart, mining prop erty Is cited. Messrs. Peter Itaa-'hu and A. II. Garrison being the present own ers. The mine of this pnqierty is lo cated in Grant county, and the mill in linker county. Before these gentlemen secured control, it apHars some legal I .....It.!.... I. ...I . I... .. l. ...... ..I. ..111. itiriimimi'n nun m iiu iiiu iiiuucii niui, and on account of the county line being indefinite, they lost qtiitu n quantity of cord wood which the Sheriff of Haker county levied on, that olllcer thinking it came under his jurisdiction, but it was linully determined the wood was in Grant county. It is said that the citizens of Green horn and othors interested, will by pe tition, try to have tlio question of county lines righted at tho coming ses sion of the legislature. ...J. W. COWDEN... HAS A FINE LINE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF ALL THE MINES AND PROS PECTS IN THE SUMPTER GOLD FIELDS 3323323 MINE VIEWS ONLY Address J. W. Cow den, Sumpter, Or YOU OUGHT TO KNOW WHAT IS BEING 8A1D OF YOUR PROPERTY IN THE EAST. THEREFORE YOU NEED THE 1MERICM MINIM NEWS The only genuine mining newspaper in the east. SPKCIAI. OFFKR, the NF.WK to January I, 11)04, for only 2.00, tho price of a year'ssubscription IN aiMnCsa WMv MWI CMMaRJ 11 H road way New York 'l. A. P. CJOSS, President GEO. H. TRACY, Cashier The Mormon Temple. The Mormon temple at Salt take City is no doubt the most substantial and well constructed religious edifice in the United States, If not in the world. 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