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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1903)
I THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, April 15, 1903 sl ' ..I RICH ORE AT THE BLUE Fifty Cents in Gbld Taken From one Drill Hole Buck horn to be Developed. O. O. WriKht, Ki'lKTiil ho' Illuo Mini uml Iiiickhorn, ttirniHl from n vlnlt to tint proportion Jimt woiik. Thu main object of tlio trlJwiin to tnko a prclliinniiry nurvoy ofjtbo lluckliorti to nturt opcratloiiH thorn In it Hliort Hum. This xroup of oIhUiih which wiim only recently nc qulrol liy Km prooiit owiuth Iuih all Imwii riiiiil for and the iK(Ih went jiiiHMifil' linly a fiv diiyn iiko. Tho tronxtiry utock lit now in tho umrkot. Home ropulrx lire ncisltsl Ix-foro actual iiiereiiso In value of Kovonty-flvo cunts to 81 nor ton for nrnrv mill BIRD, jabovo fifty per cont, and u much I greater deduction for ovory unit below fifty per cont. Tho thIuo of thu ore Is Increased by having a low! percent Ke of silica; and oven when! thoy aro as low as forty-flvo por cont in chromic o.xldo thoy find a, ready market If thoy aro low in silica, j at prices raniliitf from 610 to 81" I 1 por ton. I Chromlto has boon found iu mamiKor of i (piautity iu Pennsylvania, Maryland, ro- North Carolina and California. Tho mineral docs not occur iu well- dollued veins, but Is found In masses, or pockets, which apparently bavo no relation whatever to one another, i Kspecallly in California tho mineral occurs iu tho serpentines which aro found extensively in many of tho counties. .MlnliiK for chromlto has been prosecuted spasmodically iu Alameda, Calaveras, Dol N'orte, Fresno, Mondoelno, Napa, Placer, San Luis Obispo, Santa Clara, (liivoloiiinmit work is xtnrliil. 'Dm I loor1 In the main MorkhiK tunnel will Shasta, Slorra, Sonoma and Tehama Imvn to lm taken up and placed on counties. Minim; and Euitiuoorulir a bettor urade. The tunnel will also bit rotliiihercd. A double shift will bo started iu a short time. It Is.lH'llored that the Iliickhorn will develop itlto as good if not a better proposition than the Illuo Hlrd, its Hlster iiroperty. Machinery will bo installed as soon as tho roads open Tho company is IIkiiiIiik on plans for' thu' ten-stamp mill which is to bo put Iu at tho lllue Hlrd this siini uior. Ih the meantime ore Is IioIiik blocked out preparatory to tho In stallation of tho plant. .lust us little us possible Is ImliiK takou out, only a siilllcioiit. amount to make way for the workings, and owIiik to tho liltth Krailo of tho ore, this is IioIiik palced iu Unlit bins to save all (ho slfthiKS. Just week when Mr. Wrlwlit in tho mine, Superintendent Thorp took tho drillings from one drill hole, panned them down, mid from this small amount of drill dust ex tracted llfty cents worth of Kolil. This shows tho IiIkIi quality of tho oro. Tho company is very much elated over tho prospecta of these two proportios, and will make a IiIk show liiK on them during the summer. Ituvluw. FREIGHT RATES TO BE REDUCED. General Freight and Passenger Agent Barton Confers With the Business Men. MONEY IN CHROMIC DEPOSITS Protptcton Should Look for ThU Ore It Pay. On account of the iucreasiiiK do maud for chromlto or chromic iron, Iu tho arts and industries, it will pay prospectors to bo on tho watch for deposits of tho mineral. Ah ii mineral It is used for furnace and hearth linings; chromium Is used extensively as an alloy, especially with stool, which It renders Intensely hard, and the salts of chroiiluiii enter very laruely into the manufacture of pigments. Tho value of chrome 010 depends upon Itsporeontnuo of chromic oxide. Tho standard oro contains llfty per cent of this oxide, and there Is an Ah previously agreed upon be tween tho busluusH mou of Sumpter and tho nmuiiKomout of tho Sumpter Valley Railroad company, Joseph Itarton, of Maker City, general freight was, passenger agent for tho company, mot a committee of Sumpter business men Friday iu tho olllco of J. II. Kohhius, to confer regarding tho reduction of freight rates from Maker City to Sumpter. Tho dotalls of tho mooting wore not given out for publication, but it is understood that Mr. Martou hold out tho hope that tho concessions asked will tx) granted. In fact It is stated that tho company had practically tho sumo reductions under advisement and would doubt -lesH have made them hud no move ment to tills end boon Inaugurated. However, Mr. Marlon was not iu u position to puss tlnally upon tho matter until ho had conform! with his company. Ho stated that tho company felt most favorably inclined toward Sumpter, ami was disposed to meet tho business Interests hero half way, hi tho concessions asked. Tho committee which mot Mr. Marlon consisted of tho following well known business men, represent ing tho general scope of the Indus tries of (ho city: Hon bins, Senator Ilobsou, C. .). P. Holland, and K. P. . .1. II. Mob. C. Mascho, Mergman. tilant Powder Is the best by test in the world. T. t. Harrison atjent. ilfMfMfMl'fMfMfMfMfMfMfMf,ttMlMfMtHftMfMtMtMt'4 Victor Mining Co. . THE FIRST BLOCK OF TREASURY STOCK IS NOW ON THE MARKET V LOCATED IN THE RED BOY DISTRICT THE PROPERTY HAS BEEN WORKED ON FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS VALUES RUN FROM $50 TO $300 PER TON IN GOLD AND SILVER FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ADDRESS G. M. Rockwell fie Co. 701-702 Herman Bldg. Milwaukee, Wis. VM. II. TIBHALS, President. SEYMOUR II. BELL, Manager. li..l..l..t.t.i.i..l.t.Ai.J.AA.i.i..i.l..l...l..t..l.i.i A FINE LINE OF .. GROCERIES .. 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