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.
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: 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.
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WM. H. TIBBALB, President.
SEYMOUR II. BELL, Manager.
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SUMPTER. OREGON
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(Successor to Snyde & Stlnson)
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New Merchant Tailor
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