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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1903)
Wednesday, March 25, iqoj THE SUMPTER MINER I Be Deliberate, Be Thoughtful & Yet Act Promptly. $ zx s Upon Your Prompt and Early Action Often Depends the Price at Which You Nay Secure a Good Investment. The Second Allotment of Stock of the Highland Gold Mines Company Is Now Being Offered to Investors on Ground Floor Terms. SIX (6) CENTS PER SHARE $30 WILL BUY 500 SHARES; $60 WILL BUY 1000 SHARES; $300 WILL BUY 5000 SHARES. S u oro feoi SITUATION The properties of the HIGHLAND UOLD MINES COMPANY, consisting of twelve claims, (240 acres) and known locally as tho KNAPP GROUP OF MINES, are situated on tho famous MOTHER LODE system of the Sumpter District, in Baker County, State of Oregon, and on the great Elkhorn divide at the head waters of Rock Creek flowing to the east and Cracker Creek flowing to the west, through that now renowned Cracker Creek District of Eastern Oro gon, where are situated upon the MOTHER LODE system the North Pole, E. & E., Columbia and Uolconda Mines, known the world over as the "Big 4" of Eastern Oregon. MEMORANDA OF SAMPLES TAKEN FOB THE If AST THREE YEARS. BY COL. M. L. LOHMIRE. 1800 Glasgow drift west side crook, heavy sulphidos, from rich streak ... From crosscut east sido of creek on Eldorado, 10 wido, taken in 5 foot sections, north wall Six feet in center of vein, largo sample Fivo foot south side, largo somplo ... Tho Buuuock Burn tunnel, 7 feet on foot wall, largo samplo Bannock Burn tuunel, 2 foot uoxt south wall, largo smplo Bannock Burn tuuuel, 10 feet, 0 inches, in width, lurgo samplo Back 8 feot from faco and 2 feet next to hanging wall, largo sample . . . . Same body 14 feet back from face, 4 feet of ore From Glasgow drift west of creek, from oro on dump in boxes - From same point In Glasgow drift, 1 1 inches wido 20 feot back from face, 0 inches wido, samo drift East sido of creek, iu crosscut uext to shaft on Eldorado, 15 foot wido - Float in and around opou cuts half wuy up tho mouutuln fro. n east oud of Bauuock Bum tuuuel, gouoral samplo At open cuts uear west end lino, vuluos obtuiuod runged from - - - 828.00 to 829.00 Small streak in open cut near west oud lino of Bauuok Burn 300.00 Samplo from surface near creek east side, 8 foot wide 12.1 1 J JULY 1900 Bannock Burn tunnel face.O feet in width, tunnel having boon driven ahead a few feet General samplo, 0 feet of oro 8 feet back from face of Bannock Burn tunnel . . . General samplo of 4 feot of ore, 30 feet twek from fare of Bannock Burn tunnel - -5.70 Geueral sample, 8 feot of oro in opou cut 250 feet west, further up the mouutulu from Bauuock Burn tuuuel 5.63 General samplo next to foot wall, same place - - 2. 50 General samplo 2 feet In width, hanging wall 250 feet west of Bannock Burn tuuuel 2.25 Banuock Burn claim near west end Hue 2 feet oro 0.04 Bauuock Burn claim, gouoral sample, from large boi.ldeiH of ore half way up tho mountain 10.01 Samplo from 14 luetics in faco of Glasgow - 27.10 Sample of a lot of float 1000 feot west of Bannock Burn tunnel 4. 30 Samplo of sulphide ores from Glasgow drift, west of creek 219.00 General sample, open cut 700 feet west of Bannock Burn tunnel ..... 13.22 8330.00 5.78 2.59 5.28 8.25 30.94 7.70 15.90 22.32 398.33 491.98 430.00 4.70 27.00 Memoranda of siimpliug aud rcsultH for mispluced or lost, but results wero good. tho fall of 1001 4.10 10.82 Sampling this fall from tho Eldorado East tuunol In the face, gouoral sample ran from 83.70 to 815.70 per ton Sample of 18 inch gouge or sclvidgo ... 4.58 WIDTH AND LENGTH OF VEIN. Tho vein is tmcoablo tho entire length of the claims, thirty-flvo hundred (3500) feot, and the oro shunts. are known lo be of immouso leugth, aud tho vuluos In tho same evenly distributed throughout. The width of tho vein varies from ten (10) to forty (40) feet, and has a northeasterly aud southwesterly strike or course; the perma nency of which has boon demonstrated by (ho development of tho other initios on tho now famous MOTH K K LODE of tho Hutupter District. The vein on this property has been explored thoroughly on tho surface by means of shafts, tunnels aud open cuts, and Is known to carry commercial values tho entire length of tho claims. FREE TRIP TO THE HIGHLAND MINE. If you seriously consider an Investment Iu the Stock of the HIGHLAND GOLD MINES CO., and wish to make a personal ex umluatiou of tho MINE, and personally learn the facts, you may do so without cost to yourself. Wo will pay your expenses from your homo to the MINE and return; and if you Hud the facts as represented, all we usk In return Is a fulr aud reasonable Investment, but if you 11ml that tho facts have !oon misrepresented, wo will not usk you for an Investment, and forever hold you harmless from all necesKury expenses on account of your visit and examination. WRITE FOR SPECIALCONTRACT COVERING THIS FEATURE II H Address all Communications, and Make Your Checks, Drafts and Money Ordsr3 Payable to Neil J. Sorensen 8t Co. Financial Agents g DEPARTMENT NO. 9 tAA 8f &Sf Sumpter, Oregon. V