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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1903)
8 THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, January 14, 1903 AN OREGON . TREADWELL MINE. Mill on Great Low Grade Dyke Now Working. The new L'O-Htamp mill on the Mack Kaglo mine near Malheur City will be Kin pounding out gold next week. (funeral Manager .1. I'. Moikle wan in Baker yiwturday and paid to a Herald rexrter : "Tlio mill in ready for iiiHtant opera Hon. Tim machinery will lie belted ii Monday and tin full '.ll-MampH will la- Kin dropping two parties who had gone out to relocate clainiH in that vicinity, after the first of the year, had taken poftxeMion of his domicile and consumed quite a quan tity of IiIh provinloiiH. TIiih did not hurt Mr. Stafford 'h feelingH ho much, lint the fact that these men had lined bin abode iih ii stable for their horned, made him feel iih though thev were crowding IiIh hoHpitality too much. NOT CORRECT IN TWO STATES. AT CRACKER CRADLE OperationsBeing Conducted on Claims Owned by Mil waukee People. Oregon and Washington not Fairly Repre sented as to Metal Output. ('mumcutliig ou the preliminary re port of the director of the mint for the year UK):.', the Mining and Kuginccrlug Iteview Iiiin the follouimr to hmv : " i .. While in Home districts the cxtimate , JIH If the expectation of Mr. Molklo nr ' ,,f thn IMrcctor of the Mint 1h nearly iitn...i i... in 1. 1.. 1 in .. ... 11 ' Manager .1. J. Hennessy Is pushing work on the Cracker Cradle grotipin the Cracker creek Hection seven miles north west of Sumpter. Tharo are. three clainiH belonging to the company, the lead running through two of them the entire length. The third claim being a aide one, little being known of value beyond the fact that fullllled the Murk Kagle will eventually rival the Trend we 1 1 or llomentuke. It Ih IocrUnI on an immmiHn porphyry dyke, 400 feet wide, which panx free gold it h entire width. Ore ran he mined and milled for Icnm than fl mt ton. The ore wIIIUmi quarried. The mill in located at the Imite of a high hill, through which the auriferoiiH dyke cittH. An adit level peuutraU thin hill for MX) feet. An up raiae of Hid feet connecta the adit with the Mirfat'H. Another upraine will he made at 200 feet in the tunnel. Begin-1 mug at the Hiirfuce, the ore will lie broken down in the form of an inverted cone; ahot down the tmruiee into ore! correct, iih he Iiiih had every poHMiblo facility for arriving at the output, Ilia ligureH for WaHliingtou and Oregon are far from being correct. A great deal of bullion iHHhiped from both of themi Mate which Ih never credited to them, and one mine in Ore gon Iiiih produced more gold the pant year than Iihh Im'cii credited to the en tire Mate. There in only one nliHolutely cure way of arriving at the correct output of a diHtrict and that Ih, to get retuniH from each producing mine. This the Director of the Mint cannot do, and the tank would Iks a very dilll- cam in the tunnel ami hauled 100 feet,-ult one, iih many mine owner are into me mill hopper. At no mine in , averne to giving out any Htatement alaMit tint worlil can ore lie handled ho cheaply , the output of their mincH. and in mieh immeiiHe quantitieH. j However, a thorough ciiiivuhh of each Manager Meikle, who Iiiih Hiimpled the diHtrict would rennlt in obtaining pretty dyke exhaustively, Iiiih necured iihhovh accurate CHtimateH. ranging from a trace to I00 pur ton. 1 - He in certain he can bring- the milling I Will Incorporate a Company, average to I'J.rtO, leaving a net prollt per 1 T. .1. Marcum, who ownx live clainm ton of (l.ral. With 'JO MampH he can within HtHK) feet of the Cracker-Oregon, handle 1111 i iciiho quantity of the I ban decided to incorporate a company oft piophyrv, although he aiinounccH in order to piiHh development work 011 that the mill will eventually be lucrcim- 'a more extensive scale. The company l to 100, HrhapH 'J00, niaylH' otHI ' will lie incorporated for one million Hlaniw. .nliarcHofa par value of one dollar each If thoilyke maiutaiiiHau average mill with 100,001) shares hi the treasury. Mr. value or f-'.oO per t the Itlack l-.agle I Marcum Iiiih worked ou these claims will oiiIcI.ihh the Tread well. Herald. QUARTZBURG MINES. Clipping From the Prairie City Miner's Items. The ledge Htruck ou the Lone Star Iiiih widened from S to LM iuchcH in a 1-foot run. K. K. Cleaver said yesterday that the two prnMrtiiH now worked on the Copper Itidge ure showing up elegantly, and that now ueiirlv the full faceof the tunnel in in good ore and the vein in con tinually widening at a rapid pace. "We are now in over UK) feet in the Iomci-crortwiit tuiinrl," said Ueorge II. Kigbt, the prcriidcut of the Dixie MtMdtiMH Oold Mining Co., hint night to a Miner retorter, "and making nix font eveiy day with twosliills, being unable to mil three shifts ou account of bad air. We will, according to our survey, reach the lead about February Int. Soxtou ami Waul have an excellent pro-qxvt, "Little Klondike." They have run a .' foot tunnel and Htruck a H'xit ledge of holid quart, containing pure galena and of which 10 inchcH can Imi i tuned gold with profit. On January 'JOtli a MmerH' meeting will Iki held at tirange hall, I'rairieCity, for the purpose of taking the Decennary Mcptlor the organiratiou of the tjnarl burg mining diHtrict. All miners are in vited and requeued to ho present. Hid Their Gall With Them. When II. S. Stafford returned to bin cabin, eight miles north of Sumpter, ou the .tint of December laat, ho found that for the pant live yearn and Iiiih driven a aixty foot tunnel on the main lead which in eighty feet wide and assays average live dollar. Book Social. Tue ladlcH guild will give a lionk nodal Friday evening at 8 o'clock. AdminHiou ten ceutH. SupHrwill la served for which extra will w charged. Kvery lady in town in invited to lie present and represent a Isiok for which prizes will Im given for the bent representu lion. Only the lieat bramlH ot liquorn and cigar at Dunpby'H "The Club." All the latent novelties in luttn at Neill Mercantile company's. it carrieH mineral and in unite valuable for the timber within its limits. Ah crosscut, the vein on the Dewey and lxst Lode, the two continioiis claims, is twenty-eight feet wide. This tunnel is only a crosscut near the stir- J face and only proves the lead to a depth of twenty feet. From this development, as it advanced, assays of from $1 to 14.65 per ton in gold have been had. TIiIh work has now been abandoned and a development tunnel started lower down the mountain. This will tap the vein at a depth of 100 feet after being driven about 260 feet. This company intenda opening an ollice in .Sumpter in the near future. It Ih probable that one of the company will come here so as to represent the concern at this end. Following aro the oMcers; C. C. Wentworth, president; K. K. Windle, vice-president: W. 8. Peck, secretary; W. II. Col burn treasurer. All these gentlemen are of Millwaukee, Wiscon sin. They and Mr. Ilenuessy con stitute the board of directors. The com pany is organized under the laws of Wyoming. It Ih their intention to make u mine out of the Cracker Cradle if monej and punh can do it. 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