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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1903)
10 THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, February h, 1905 IN SUMPTER'S ENVIRONMENT. VEINS OF GOLD QUARTZ SEAM THE NEARBY HILLS. "Pride of the Blue Mountains" Built on Beds of Pay Gravel Rich Auriferous Deposits in the Near Vicinity. Gold en Chariot Claims Being Developed Within Short Distance of the City. Notwithstanding that .Sumptcr Iiiih been a great milling ('('liter for suvernl years; it In yet an unknown matter whether paving mineH exist in itH iin ineilliite environments or not. Travel ing in any direction from the city, one ean nee prnnpect holes and tiinnelH on every linnd. What Indii'iitloiiH liavo heen found in thent! ntimeroiiH prospects Iiiih never heen given out to the public. It is quite prohahlu that the local prospector, like nil other people, coiiHlderH that (Mutant (lelilH are more green, and instead of ojx'iiiriK up ' favorable showing near town, he gws to further away points or locateH on some twit where there in more excitement. Many people who should ho well pouted, claim that there would ho paying milieu on the outskirts of this city were thu prosocts onco opened up. Hut much of thu ground is patentetl, which precludes all iiosslhillty of it be Iiik taken up an mineral land, and acquiring a title without the possibility of long drawn out litigation. It ii well known that tho noil and gravel on which tho city of Sumptcr in built, Ih more or less laden with placer gold. And no doubt tho entire town situ and tho several addition! would pay well wero tho ground mined by tho modern hydraulic process In vogue at other pliiccH, As the fuel has been well demnnstra ted, that tho placer mineH of eastern Oregon have been fed from tho quart veins on thu surrounding IiIIIh and mouutaiiiH. It in not unreaHonablo to draw the conclusion that tho gold im pregnated gravel in tho basin where Sump tor Ih situated, came from the ad jacent hills. Two and one half miles east of Sum pter, and about one half mile north of thu wagon road leading to Baker City, on what Ih known as Hear gulch, quarts veins wero found away back in the sixties. Some of tho placer miner of that early day sunk a shaft forty two feet in depth in vein matter through which it streak from one to six inches in width I said to Ihs worth l er pound. The values in this high grade stringer were extracted by means of a hand mortar, and it is claimed that it was de monstrated that this and other veins in the vicinity wero the feeders of the gulch now mined out, but in tho palmy days of old, paid f.r0 er day to tho man shove' iug into the since boxes. F. A. Williamson, Wallace Shepard and thu Suniptor Lumber company, own eighty acres of patented land covering four vein. Among their holdings be iug tho ground on which tho old "gum hooters" sunk the forty-two foot hole alxnit forty years ago. Tho formation is said to bo entirely different to any other in tho Sum pter district, the veins being in a contact between sorentino and lime. They style their group tho Golden Chariot, and it has been hold contin ioualy for tho past ton or . Ilfteen years Among the developments is a croaccut tunnel now in 180 feet: this opening will have to bo extended another twenty live feet before it penetrates tho vein. A abaft Iiiih been Hunk thirty feet in ledge matter which will bo connected with tho tunnel when it reaches the lead. On account of tho altitude of the hill through which this vein trends, this tunnel will only prove thu lead to a depth of aliout fifty feet. This vein Ik about seventeen feet between walls mid carries from fii to f 8 per ton in perfectly freu gold ; scarcely any sulphides being visible. This is thu nveragu outside of tho rich streak nhovu mentioned. Besides this lode, there is another called the blue vein, which is about two feel in width and averages $15 per ton in gold as free as thu one iiIkivo describ ed. On the dumps there are at least 150 tons of milling ore. The work of de velopment Is being carried on con tinuously in a small way, and the owners are determined to prove that they have a paying mine. SENSATIONAL ADVERTISING. Only Reports of Rich Pockets or Specimens arc an Injury As stated in Tin: Mixkii last week the seusMtionnl bubble on ore stealing has been pricked and air of a warm temiieraturu was tho result. It is not the intention to open up u matter that is apparently dead, but to show eomo of the evils of such a method of advertis ing, thu subject is again rcfured to in theso columns. Many are of tho opinion that the stories sent broadcast by means of the Associated Press, will bo a grand ad vertisement for the mines of eastern Oregon. Thore are two ways of looking at this question. Should wo desire to attract tenderfeot to the country, then tho statements sent out will have their effect. But if on tho other band wo wish to call attention to tho country so that ex perienced mining men would como hero and invest their money, the plan falls far short of what was intended. Mining men of experience keep clear of ocket or sHc!meii mines. It is large bodies of medium, or low grade ore that attracts them. They waste no time on a section where they aro led to beliovo that a few miners can carry away tho gold produced in their lunch palls or pockets. lA)t tho press of tho country tell thu facts about tho huge Assures that abound here which carry ores that will pay front live to twenty dollars to the ton in gold, and they will benefit tho dis trict far more than publishing any kind ( yarns about fabulous strikes or big steals made by miners. PLANNING TO OPEN TEMPEST. Make Possibly a Spokane Man Will Stir in the Greenhorns. C. It. Aldrin, who developed tho Climax on Granite creek by running the two upper tunnels, and thu man in whose mii'cL tho Scandia tunnel on Quebec mountain was conceived. At (tears to have never lott faith in the riches and extent of thu oru bodies of the Blue or Greenhorn mountains. lately ho was in thin district accom panied by J. W. Schwartz, of Chicago They visited thu Tempest mine in the Greenhorns, and it is understood that development will bo pushed on that pro perty in the spring and the gold-copper oro wliich it produces will bo treated at the smelter in Sumpter. last fall Mr. Aldrin had an engineer from Spokano in the Greenhorns for quite a while, until the snow fall be came so great that it was impossible to examine tho surface. This engineer has been engaged to return in tho spring and continue his investigations. The Mormon Temple. 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