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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1903)
4 THE SUMPTER MINER Wednei-day, April i, 190) UNDOMESTICATED FELINES AT LARGE. Serious Menace to Legitimate Mining Promotion. 1 It whh after business hours. Sevenil mining in on sitting in tlio lobby of Hotel Sumpter woroitnlk itiK shop; or rather, ono of Ulxtm whh and thu odium were listening, up parcntly not very highly entertained Shortly after a MINtiK representative joined thu group, tho spokesman remarked: "I see that tho opeoratorri over at Hcattlo aro organizing for protection. That means, of course, an ulfort to kill off thu wildcatters." Every liHtunur liucamu interested at once. Noticing that ho hail an Intonated andlonco ho proceeded, to IIiIh ulfuct: "They liavo undertaken quite a job, ono that would till my hoiiI with joy to neo HiicceHHfully completed; Imt I can't llguru it out to my own wit inflict ion jiiHt how they are going to accomplish anything vury ulfuctivu. "Theso wildcatterH mo Incoming ho numuroiiH that they aro alruady a serious inenaco to legitlmitto mining promotion, and I four that ere long mining stocks will Ihi in iiH had odor, and will Ih) coiiHldored of equal ill re pute as oil stocks aru today, thu re Milt of nothing in thu world except permitting theso iindomuHtlcatud fell new to run at lurgu. Wo ought toralHoa fund by private subscription and pay a liouuty for tholr scalps, iih we did for Indian scalp lockH in thu (Hack kllllH in '7(1 neither aro good until dead. "XowHpaporx and miigu.iueri aro iih much to hluniu for thin condition of alfairn as aro thu dishonest promoters thoiiirtolvos. Ily thin, I don't mean thu horde of muHhroom growth alleged mining papers that have sprung up all over thu country during tho pant few years. They don't fool atiyhody, nor Injure any ono except tho natural horn sucker, who would give IiIh money to some gut rlcli ipilck fakir, or cuhIi a draft for hoiiio Mranger that ho had met on thu train, If IIiohu Holf-ntylod Dalyn and (JlarkH and Do lnnmrs of HoHtou and Philadelphia didn't take it away from them. What 1 moan Ih thu so-called rcputalilo publications, thoHo that make tho most nolne alioiit their character and honesty, and aru coiiHtautly warning their readers against siiine fraudulent schonie -that doesn't advertise In their columns. During tho past two mouths, I have received propositions from a number of these self-confessed 'high class publications' that actually t-hocked me, and 1 am not of a vury delicate nervous organization, either. Of course they all say In their communications, 'if your company will Unr Invest Igat ion. Wo never admit any questionable mutter to enter our columns, ' etc., and so on; but I notice that they make no investigation and continue to hammer away for an advertising contract. "Home mouths since 1 read with no little Internet an article in a Now York Illustrated weekly about gold production In thu lllack Hills. 1 was especially interested liecauso thu big boost was given to a mine that 1 had never hoard of boforu, and 1 thought 1 know all thu producing mines in that country. Well, about three- weeks ago, 1 received a communication from thu advertlsnlg department of that paper, soliciting business, with thu usual accompani ment of claiming tho largest conciliation in thu world and a miiiiiigumuut excruciatingly honest. I replied and asked that a proposition Imj submitted. Hy return mull came thu abovo mentioned articlu iih a sample of how honest thu niaiiiigomont Ih and how far it will go to holp a worthy cause in consideration of 81,500 for two pages. "lint tho rawest fako now on tho boards Ih ono of those 'guaranteed against loss' games, that Ih being oerated from San Francisco. A HUpposodly reputable journal Is publishing ita flaming advertisement, which contains a halftone cut of the 'tunnel Hlte, ' which Ih merely a section of a boulder strewn hillside. Well, that in tho most marvelous pieco of photographic and halftone work I over saw or heard of. Notwithstanding the fact that tho cut Ih printed In black ink, you can plainly seo tho gold In tho 'tunnel slto, ' in tho boulders, tho country rock, everywhere; even In a near by log that chanced to bo within the camera's range. Of course, that In a bait fur suckers, aud I am willing to gamble that it catches that variety of fish. "You goutlonien liavo doubtless noticed that to obtain the same results it costH about live times iih much for advertising during the past threo months iih it did a year ago. The reason therefor is this illegiti mate competition of wildcatters, aud it Ih growing worse orery day. You would bo afraid to muko such HtatomentH and promises as they do; oven If you wore not prevented from so doing by any higher motive; afraid of being hold lu contempt by your honest neighbors. Not ho with those osatorn sharks, for 01) per cent of them Infest thu large oltloH of the east, for thu vury evident reason that tholr acquaintances don't know that they aru worse than horso thieves aud liars. ' "Thu same conditions apply to tho local paperH. You couldn't iuduco THE MINER, for instance, to publish such transparent, ridiculously im possible assort Ions as you seo every day lu hoiiio eastern publication. In fact, I have found that tho eastern buyers have more contldenco in u statement made, oven an advertise ment, in a local taer than lu ono two thousand miles from tho property. They suem to recoguizo tho fact that an entire community, from which the paper draws its support, would not stand for any very rotten work along this line." If in want of clothing, eee Neill Mer cantile company. Miller cap protectors. T. 0, Harrison agent fur Baker, (trout and Union counties. F. O. BUCKNUM Examiner of Mines, Lands and Investments in Oregon, Washington or Idaho. Maps and Hliiu Prints furnished. If you want to purchase high class stocks write me. SUMPTER, - OREGON E. A. CLEM & CO. MINKS - PROSPECTS STOCKS Writ us for llt ol prortrtlts nj lowest asrkit iiuotiilonton itiKktln producing aunts and oil wells, fcsccllent opportunity tar profit In low prlctJ stocks. UiiClmni. of Com. I'oktlaso.Orixion. T. C. Harrison, agent for Giant pow der company. ...J. W. COWDEN... HAS A FINE LINE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF ALL THE MINES AND PROS PECTS IN THE SUMPTER GOLD FIELDS 2222 MINE VIEWS ONLY Address J. W. Cowden, Sumpter, Or. 1TTENTI0 ! 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