I I I , 8 THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, December 31, 1902 BLUE BIRD PROGRESS. What Has Been Done on a Group in Red Boy District. O. (. Wright, nf Sumpter, manager of tint lllui! Itiril mining ''tuiiitiy. received n hsttcr ti fiuv ilnya hinco of which tho following !h a copy. "New York, Dec, LI), lltOL'. Vn Iimvii n ivi'il ufwivh from the hiHt Who Mini ore Hciit UK, ami aro pleaded to lulvimi you that it goon fL'L'l,L'7 to thu ton. Wo will writo you further next week. Youth Yory Truly WIIHKI.KK CO. I-'IhciiI AgonlH." TIiIh in tho ri'Hiilt of a cample of ore tukmi from tho L'O.fnot vein .'lift feet from tho portal of tho eroiwut tunnel that tho llluo Mini Company havo Ix-en followiiiH ami evidently in a miperlnr grade of oni wbioh they havo encountered. Iloth wall aro Hiuooth aul miliil; 4'oiiHilorahlo HlickciiNliilcrt being in evidence, which provt'M it to ho a trim JlHHIlm. Thin development In IMtl foot vertically Imlow tho Niirfaco, ami the entire lilliug of tho vein in of Hiillicieiit average vahio to Ihi milled, while Htrcaku of extra high Itratlo ore run all through tho entire IIIUHH. At a iliNtanco of LNW feet from tho mouth of thin tunnel, a vein live feet in width wan cut hut him not yet been drifted on, a wimple wan taken uccrohH it which yielileil in gold f HlJl per ton. Tho length of thin lower.or number ', tunnel at prei-ent i HIT) feet. On in eouut of tho air doing hail, it further pingroNM in Htoppril until the air com pteMMir iNJnopoiatiou. TIiih tunnel will develop home of lheeompauy veinn In a depth of 1 ,000 feet; hence it N e.illeil the MMK) foot level Two hundred feet crtieally above, on what Ik Htyle.1 the MH fiHit level, an tia lit tunnel Iiiih heeu dilvt'li IIT.'i feet. Ah miiiii iih poHNJhle an llpiaiho will he made fioiu tho lower tunnel In thi level which will prove the ground hetweeu tlie-e pointH, furuixh flit 1l.1t ion, mill make AFTER SIX YEARS. feet below a eroKHcut tunnel which wan run Huveral yonrH ago. To do thin at lenHtoO feet further will have to be driven. After tliiH work Ih completed they will probably make an upraine connecting thece two IovcIh. It in iiIho the intention to ruuacrome cut tunnel went which will develop eight veinn, nix of which outcrop on the mirfiico and hIiovv good values. Professor IIiiiIhou II. Nicholson, con When thin work !h completed, and milting Mining l-.ngineer, and who Ih in Professor H. H. Nicholson Re turns to This District. connection Ih made with another cron cut tunnel which wan run poiiiu time Hince, it Ih anticipated that enough ore will he put in Night to warrant the erec- tiou of a ten or Lttattiiiiip mill with tho iicccMMary concentrating machinery. The director Htato that with the addi tional force they will employ, they cliould lie ablo to know thu poxHlhilltlcH of the mine in the next few inoutliM, and ho certain it apiearH that their cal eulatiouH are correct that they havu planned for the work to go right ahead. Ah far iih it mill wlto and water Hiipply Ih concerned, they are muttcrx which call for nnoxiH'iiHc, iih nature could not havu planned thoHo convenience)! better for thu property. They aim) havo an abundant mipply of timber for all pur- poncH, ho that all funda raiHed will go directly Into the iiiIiioh ami their equip incut with a mill ami other necewiory machinery. Judge M. It. Iteene, and I'rofcmior II. II. Nicholnou, of NebriiHka, who havu Im-cii iiiveHtigatiug the rcHourccH of thu diHtrict, are ho well pleaned witli thu ap pearance, ami coulideut of thu future outcome of thu proponed development!! of Tint Old AniHtra Miiion, that thuy will no doubt become identilled with the company more than they prenent. MALHEUR OIL FIELDS. Renewed Activity in the Search for the Fluid. There in paid to ho ipiilo an amount of activity in the Malheur County uihed I in another mean of .-I Ming into or out of the mine, in tho power hou-e, at the i it It of tho lovvei tunnel, the concrete found.i. tiou fm tho an ci'iiiprccxor and other iii.ichiuety in all laid icady for every thing to ho plmed thereon ami bolted down. TIiih pluiit h.t- been pun ami paid for hut h,l- been ilel.ivi tnillsil fur Home tc.lo More or Ick win k has been going on on thin pioperlv during the p.iM mx ye.UH. The pii"cut comp.iuy vvarf organized Iiihi M.iich, and xinco April developmeul vvoik h.t-t been crowded day and night. TIiih i-otnp.tiv have ,i reserve fund on hand Hiillificut tiie.iriyuu , develop. men! and elect the mill, which will be aihbsl to the plant in the priug. HcMh. linker City neonlu havu had a gang of men at work there for hoiiiu time doing $UHI worth of work on each claim held by them and in the aggre gate have expended $.'1,000. The Into Sol IlirHch, of Portland and the lloio lirotherH, hankera of Yale, home time ago provided f -'0,000 to put down the tirnt well. Although their oH'ratiouH were conducted with thu gicatfHt eccrocy, it in understood in thu ueighlMirhiHHl that they have Htruck the llrM oil Hand, which in an indication that they are liable to liud what they ate looking for. Thone who havu ex amined the Malheur HcMh claim that there are plenty of oil ceepH and gaa there. Some time during tho pant year I'uited Staten government geologistH examined the ground and on thcirreport therectiou wiih witheld iih an oil reserve. KxpertH from PeiiHvlvania, California and other place have visited and studi- charge of thu chemiHtry department of ' tho State I'niveriMty of NebriiHku, at Lincoln, ban been a visitor liero for the pant few iloyH. Tho real object of Mr. Nicholson', presence heru nt thin time Ih to examine and ruHirt on the Illack .lack group of claiiiiH Houth of thu Ited Hoy mine. He luiHiilready made the examination, hut Iiiih not yet formulated bin remirt. Thin will not Ihi done until ho returns to his Nebraska borne. Six yearn ago tho pant summer, I'rofen sor .Nicholson visited thiH district in the capacity of mining engineer for New York people. He examined for them a proposition in thu Quartzburg flection, but they did not take hold of thu pro perty. At that timu there were no means of transportation iih there Ih at thin day. I.ittlo wan Iwing done in tho country out Hide of placer mining. At the Red Hoy, the ownorn of that property weru Htaggering along with a primitive Arastra, but nlowly and surely laying thu foundation for thu magnifi cent holdings which thuy ohhchh today. I'rofessor Nicholnon at thu timu of hia firm vIhU came to McKwen, which wan then thu terminus of thu Sumptcr are at ll- railway. Irom there he traveled alMiut the country on horseback. He punned over thu niountnins and through tho John Day Yalley, striking thu O. 11. ft N. Hy., nt Pendleton. Despite the fact that thin entire region in now covered with nnovv, yet l'rofennor Nicholnen can realie that wonderful changen have been wrought here in thu nix yearn nincu hu hint naw the country. When anked what the Nebranka peo ple thought of the mines of eastern Oregon, thu professor naid that there oil) wan not yet enough known of our mineral renouncen there for 1 1 i lit to ex- press an opinion. His addresnas Mining Kugineer is Denver, Colorado, and most of his clientn reach him there. Heretofore bin services havu been in demand in Colorado, Arizona. New Mexico and Wyoming. Now that a gentleman of theoiialitlca- tiou and standing of Professor Nicholson ban been hero on professional business, and that hu can realize thu rapid ad vancement this country has made in no short a time, it in not improbable but that through bin influence considerable more attention will be called to thu gold lioldn of thin favored jmrtion of thu country. J. P. HOLLAND WHOI,K SALE AND RETAIL 5eeb, 5'0Ur cmb Probuce Retail Oflice, - Granite Street Wholesale oflice, S. Y. Ry Tracks THE NATIONAL BANKER 84 and 86 La Salle St. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS A journal of national circulation. Is read by bankem, capitalists, in vestors, retired merchants. If you want to reach a gixxl chisn of buyers and thu jnoncyed and investing pub lic, advertise in the National Ranker. Thousands of copies of each issue of the National Hanker goes to investors throughout the Middle West, Eastern and New England staten. 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