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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1902)
Wednesday, December $i, iqo2 THE SUMPTER MINER THE EXTENSION OF THE NORTH POLE MINE HAS BEEN FOUND AND THE COMPANY THAT HAS FOUND IT IS THE BOSTON-OREGON GOLD MINING COMPANY CAPITAL STOCK $1,000,000 FULLY PAID PAR VALUE $1.00 PER SHARE NON-ASSESSABLE Which Company Lately Purchased the Property of the ALLEGHANY GOLD MINES CO., Consisting of Six Claims on the MOTHER LODE OF CRACKER CREEK, Above the NORTH POLE MINE, on the Divide Between Cracker and Rock Creeks, and Being the APEX OF THE MOTHER LODE And Without Doubt Its Richest Part. Nearly 10,000 was Spent by the Alleghany Gold Mines Company in Establishing the Fact that not only were thev on the Mother Lode, but that Through their Property ran the Richest Part of it. This is what Mr. R. J. EAKMAN, one of the Most Conservative Mining Superintendents who ever operated in Eastern Oregon, says of the Preperty: Dtruinlxtr :Mtli, IDOL'. C. 1 SODKUMNO, KSQIt., President lloHton-Ori'non (Sold Mining Co, Huker City, Oregen: Pear Sir: I have, hceu acquainted uitli what in known ax tint "Mother l.od(i" of Kaxtem Oregon ninco ItH tirnt ueceenful production of precious metulH In IH'.II, up to the present time, Miik employed in varioiiH ca pacities, an foreman, and Hiiperiutuuduut, on the famoux North role, Columbia anil (lolcoudu MincH, anil am familiar with tin' Hiirfui'u ami underground working of I lit IIhhuti known iih thu Mothtir I.mIi, where h located hiicIi iroM!rtii'b ih the. Hh-x, Haiti Mountain, (iraud Trunk, Hunker Hill, Aiiuululu, Amazon, Wide Went, (ioluouda, Columhhi, Knrcka and Kxcclwior, North Hole, Doer IhIk), and Alleghany, now HOSTO.VOItKCION (501.1) MINING COMPANY'S l'ltOI'KKTY, which hIiowh u liold nut-crop, and in equal to any of thu other great produced at thu name Htajjo of development. In my judgment you have a promiHhiK property, which Ih Nituatcd on thu great "Mother l.odu" Syxtem of Vehmof the Sumpter, Oregon, .Mining Oixtrict, in Manteru Oregon. Yniirn truly, It. .1. KAKMAN. In order to further develop the property a limited number of shares of the Treasury Stock will be sold at TWENTY-FIVE CENTS PER SHARE and for Maps, Circulars, Engineers Reports, and any other information desired, apply to the following Business Men and well known citizens of Baker City, Oregon, who are Stock holders and Officers of the BOSTON OREGON GOLD MINING COMPANY, viz: Presi dent, Mr. C. F. Soderling; Vice-President. Hon. W. 1. Cilbert; Treasurer, Hon. W. E. Grace; Secretary, Colonel Emmett Callahan; Depository, Citizens Bank, Baker City, Oregon. Directors, Mr. C. F. Soderling, President of the Oregon Ore Reduction Works, and General Manager of the Blue Mountain Iron vVerks: Hon. W. H. Gilbert, Capitalist and formerly president of the Blue Mountain Iron Works; Hon. W. E. Grace, President of the Citizens Bank and member of firm of Sage & Grace, Hardware, and Grace & Bodinson, druggists; Mr. P. Basche, Capitalist and President of Basche Hardware company; Mr. Harry W. Soderling, Metallurgist in charge of the Oregon Ore Reduction Company, or to COLONEL EMMETT CALLAHAN, Secretary ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW Haskell Block Baker City, Oregon.