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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1903)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, April i, 1903 v-a BETTER VALUES AT HIGHLAND. Work on Glasgow Crosscut Proceeding and Yet no Sign of Opposite Wall. Noll J. Horounen mid J. K. Sholton, of tho Null J. SorotiHOU Co., rottirnod last wook from a trip to tho IliKulaud proporty. Tlioy woro at the tuition two dayH and ruport everything inov ItifC Halinfaotorily. Tho croiwout in the UlanRow Iihh advanced about flftoou foot in tho 1xIk oxpnHing a duo body of wood milling oro. Thoro aro yot no hIkiih of tho opposite wall. It Ih prolmblo that tho IimIko will tneaHuro Iwtwoon forty and tlfty foot. Tho oro HtwayH Imtwoou Ifi and 0. It Ih a Kood (iiiallty of riiillltm oro, and whilo n low Krurio propn Hltlon, tho fact that It oxbttn in mich otiormoiiH (uitiitltiiw, inakcH thU mino a vory iloHlrahlo ono. Tho oro Ih trfoadlly growing lmttoMli pinlity iih tho oroHHHiit prociMxln, hmirlng out tho Hhowing iniirio In tho working iiliovo that tho niimt valuablo oro it on tho Houth or hanging wall. Thorn Ih ovory ovidonuo, too, that tho oro Ih gutting hottnr with do)th. In tho promint worklngx'of tho Olangow It Ih iiiiimIi Imttor than at tho namo pluco on tho voin in tho IovoIh ubovo. 912 havo boon obtained with 'every iiHHUianco that, an valucH in ' most other pi-operticoa in tho datrict, Incioaso with depth. Whilo it Ih a low grudo proportion tho largo oro bodiert will tnako it a paying one. Tho Killon, Warner and Stewart company are handling tho property. INCREASES CAPITAL STOCK. OREGON PLACER AND POWER CO. Work lo Start as Sooo ai Water Ruot in Dltchti. Tho Orogon Plaeor and Pouor com pany, Noll ). HoroiiHon & company, llnanclal agonlx, Ih making propar atioim to Ix'glii oporating IIh plm'orH on tho (Intuitu nlopo an hooii iim tint water will run in tho dltchori. Within tho punt yiar (IiIh company Iihh put in all tho Hiilmlaiitial otptlpmont ntit'OHHary to oporato tho placorn, and ovorything Ih roady to Mart up iih hooii an tho woathor will porintt. Tho company Iihh from tVNolVd to llftl'OU lIlilOH of dltchoH and 0110 and a half milot of ImmI rock tluiiio. OporatioiiH will Im conducted 011 an oxUuihIvo hciiIo (IiIh HUiiiiuor. CRACKER EAGLE AND SUMMIT. Two Shlfti Beiogf Worked and Develop ment Proceeding Rigidly. V. II. .lackHon, HiipiM'iiitondoiit of tho Cracker Haglo and .Summit propoitioH in tho Cracker Creek dlntrict, huj'h that development work Ih going ahead very nicely, two eight-hour nhiftH being worked in each. The foico of men Ih driving on tho Summit vein and crosi-cuttlng on t ho Cracker Kagle. The prelimin ary work given indication of an immetiMt 010 body. Prom hu 1 face away values of t'. to Guggenheim Company Will Ute New Capital to Acquire Coeur d'Ateoe Mine. Tho Guggenheim Exploration com pany incroasoa its stock 10, GOO, 000, to 917,000,000, offering it at par and , keepiUR $1,000,000 in tho treasury. Tho now capital will bo partly UHod in acquiring Coeur d'Aloue mlnen. Tho stock doos not yot pay dividends, as tho earulugs have heretofore boon spent on the proporty. Standard Oil interests havo ac quired cousldorablo coppor stock, but aro keeping in tho background. Tho output will bo enlarged, its railroad Iwlng extended a hundred miles to other proportion. The Peuuriylvaula'H big offer ing of ntock upsot tho market. Throe Union as much ntock wanofforcd iih wiih expected. Tho PoiiiiHylvauia drow 1,000,000 in cash from tho bankH today, tightening money ratcn. It Ih part of the S.'lli, 000, 000 recently borrowed. Morgan and Kiihu, Loeb & Co. have declined the roqucnt of tho Cuban government to float now liotidn. Spokenmau Review Prenn Dispatch. Drove a Drift 310 Feet In 28 Days. Martin Iluckley, manager of tho Travolta mine, one of United States Senator W. A. Clark'n properties, ban accomplished a feat in mining that will ntaiid an a record In liutto for some time to come. In twotity eight days he drove a drift .'110 feet. Tho bent previous record to this was UfiO feet, made in thirty shifts by James Skyrme, now a foromau at tho Moonlight initio. In tho Summit Val ley mining district. Tho work ac complished by Iluckley was on an average of eleven and flvo-sovouth foot per day. Tho ground was so hard that it was necessary to timlwr but tlfty feet of tho 1110 feet of tho drift. The drift was run at a depth of 400 feet from tho main shaft and tho only air used In the work was from the drill compressors. Spokesman Hoviow. Local Auiym Correct. Since learning of tho wide dllfereuco Itetween their own assay of (ioldeu Wl7ard oro and tho check cample taken from hero by Messrs. Clark and l-'rary, stockholders in the property, and assayed by a Salt Lake City man, Itobbius & (odditis icaxxaycd the ore with practically the Mime results as in the former iiixtaiico. Their assays show- a value of about 15, while the Salt Lake man got about 11. They aro of the opinion that in come way ho got tho samples switched. a,t"H"t"t"l"l"l"l"l"l""i"""l"r"t,"t"1tti i : Victor Mining Co. :: THE FIRST BLOCK 4 OF TREASURY STOCK IS NOW ON THE MARKET LOCATED IN THE RED BOY DISTRICT VALUES RUN f FROM $50 TO $300 PER TON IN GOLD AND SILVER THE PROPERTY HAS BEEN WORKED ON FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS G. N. Rockwell & Co. 701-702 Herman BIdg. Milwaukee, Wis. w WM. H. TIBBALB, President. SEYMOUR II. BELL, Manager. A FINE LINE OF .. GROCERIES .. ALWAYS IN STOCK Fresh Vegetables Arriving Dally. Prompt Delivery. Give Us a Trial and We Will Please You. EDLIN & STARBUCK Opera Housa Bleok Phone 361 SUMPTER. OREGON THE GEM SALOON A. J STINSON, Prop. (Successor to Snyde & Stlnson) Only the Beat Brands of Liquors Served Over the Bar SUMPTER. - - OREGON New Merchant Tailor MILL STREET, OPPOSITE BANK OF SUMPTER I Havo Received a Large and Elegant Line of Suitini and Trouserings for Coming Season, Which You are Kindly Invited to Inspect. Truly Yours, a ot cjt CHARLES GEE C n