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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1903)
8 THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, January 2 i, 1903 SILVER QUESTION IS NOT DEAD. Trying to Force Mexico Re vives an Old Issue. It appear that the American hankers are not basing the easy time thut they anticipated in forcing Mexico to niloit the uolil standard. I Their attempt to do so has in a great j measure stircd up the silver element of 1 crosscut lasing ninriu to determine more about tliu nature and (iiallty of the eili. SamplcH are being taken to establish the character of the ore at that particular Kiint. The ledge if said to he about forty feet wide, and while high values have not heen found iih yet, the present show ing would indicate a gtss! low grade proposition. Later on developments will lie to greater depths, since it in possible to al most gain foot for foot hv tunneling into the hill. A Nfw Restaurant' Philip Arscnault Iikh resigned Ii!h position as chef of Hotel Suinpter, and I FOUR VEINS CUT THROUGH Tunnel on Oregon Monarch is Being Crowded Ahead. Four vehiH hnvo been pierced by the crosscut tunnel being driven with ower drillH to Intersect the several veiiiH on the Oregon Monarch ledges adjacent to the Ited Hoy. ThfHo veins are considered as bo many (lie United States and net the people f nill .wn th-Meal ruHtuuruiit, opposite ' HnMt to tno C0'"Py greatly en s,uue as It tl0 M,Mtolllte. It has been newly papered and relitted throughout, and , thin country to thinking tin Iiiin the eopleof Mexico. u hum iMMtu Demonstrated tnat Mine H H) mil UM rst clans eating house, the gold standard udvoeates have seeur-1 ,r, Arscnaulfs long uxpeiience in this ed their III in hold, America, Kugland ! ,.( n, ,H w, acuaiiitance in and (iermatiy have Item steadily losing! Kumpter, will insure him a flourishing business in China until the falling off ' mMiUHH from the start. now amounts to two hundred million dotlars annually. Mexico supplies all the Orient with ItH surplus silver Imcause no other money can ho used there. Therefore the money power is useing vwry means In its isiwer to bring Mexico under its yoke. Some idea of whether this will work or not can 1st gained from the following dispatch showing tint attitude of the common people of Mexico. "The silver question continues to Ihi una of the greatest topics of public dis cussion. It is now certain that the silver miners and farming clussus will make a common cause against the adop tion.of 'the, gold standard. Meanwhile all prices are being raised and there is much anxiety among the middle classes, eMHH'ially wagearners and salaried men. The cost of living is considered to be nut of proHirtiou to income." Apparently the much discussed silver question which was so thrashed out from IH1KI to I Him, is not dead yet. The IHtrsous who caused its downfall, drunk en with Hiwer, have started in too early to force a silver nation to their way of thinking. The coercion, intimidation, threats etc., which won in the United States, may not count for much with the despised Mexicans. There is something unfathomable in this silver business after all ; while the gold liugM are trying to foist the gold iandHrit on Mexico, the (iiiggeiiheims, bead of the' American smelting trust, are sieuding millions of dollars in the purchase, of Mexican silver mines. t Doubtless these shrewd Jews see that the effort of the single standard cople will amount to naught, and they will jirolit by supplying the Orientals the money they have used for centuries and will until the end of time. It may he. after all that this great question has been merely slumbering, ami win awaken into new lite sooner than uiKiiy would desire it to, and there is no telling what the results might be Mere it again to Ist'omo an interna tional matter One thing is certain, like all great questions, it never will ho settled hntil it is settled right. It may sleep for a time, but an awakening will come and after the inaction the people will look at its different phases with renewed interest, as they do at all affairs of life after coming out of a well earut rest. For Fifty Cent Per Share. The Magnolia Consolidated Cold Mines company are selling their stock at fifty cents per share. This shows that the mines of Crauitc are valuable properties. (iranite (iem. ACQUISITION OF BIGHORN GROUP. Four Claims Parallel to Bo nanza Mines Purchased. FAIR PROSPECT NEAR M'EWEN Goliea Vturd aod Wisconsin Will Have , Neighbor. Tim Asbiria Melbourne property, which ia an extension of the Wisconsin 'and Golden. Wimrd, near Me F: wen, has a good ledge crossing it ground. Tha work at present U continod to a Recently another group of prosK!cts were acquired by the Klllen, Warner, Stewart company. This makes the third proHrty that has come into ks session of this llrm, the other two, already under process of development lielug the Cracker Kagle and Cracker Summit. This latest proKirty consists of four quart claims known as the Hig Horn group. One of these claims crosses the North Polo divide and the other three lie in the itock Creek basin. The four claims Summit, Cliff, Hig Horn and Little Hig Horn cover one continuous large tlssure ledge that varies in width from 4 to 'JO feet. The vein has been opened on the Sum mit and thence folio win I down the Hinik Creek side of the divide, where, at a distance of -100 feet below the summit, the ledge was found to lie eight feet wide, with three feel of ore showing the arsenical stain, which is the best in dication of value in Cracker Creek ore. The ledge is one of the parallel veins of the mother lode system and crossed the divide to the east of the .North Pole ledge and at a higher elevation. Some who have examined it think it is quite probable that it is a northerly extension of the Cracker-Oregon ledge. The company's present plan is to keep this group themselves and develop it into a producer. The Hook creek side of the mountain is very steep and makes a most excellent tunnel proposition. Ity oteuuig a tunnel on one of the lower claims a depth of something like IfiOO feet can be attained. Owing to the declivity of the mountain the vein lies exHscd in many places and is easily traceable down its side. Plaui for development have not been fully matured. Nothing will be done during the winter months at leant. In the spring it la 'the intention of the Klllen, Warner, Stewart company to push the work with their usual vigor. hauce the value and the possibilities of the property. Whenever the manage ment sees lit drifting can begin on these leads, thus blocking out ore reserves for future treatment. All interest and work in being concen trated In pushing the crosscut through the heart of the mountain, that the en tire proerty may be thoroughly ex ploited and the vast mineral deposits revealed. This is pursuing a scientific and conservative policy and will be pro ductive of the best and largest results. Many proM)rtles fail because treating plants are erected before the ground has been thoroughly explored and the com pany has been fully apprised of the character and extent of their ore bodies. When this crosscut has penetrated the mountain and opened every ledge in tersecting the property, the manage ment will be in position to determine what kind of machinery will best treat the ores, and what should be the mag nitude of the plant. The cropping veins, which have been proven by surface work, are being ap proached day by day, and in the course of time will be opened up and their values proven by the tunnel now being pushed into the mountain. 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