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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1903)
4 THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, May i?, 190? J I OPERATIONS AT THE JAY GOULD. Work to Be Actively Pushed This Summer. Work Ih actively in proureHH on tho Jay Gould group in tho (llmlot crook illnlrlot. Tho company owiih llvo cIiiIiiih, nainoly tho Jay Gould, Oregon, llliick Hawk, Gimlet and Spokane, located on tho heud waterH of (Simlet Creek, a region remarkably rich In placer gold. The prcHeut development coiihIhIh of from l.fiUO to 1,700 feet of tunnelH, tipralHOH and croHMCiitH. Ahhiij'h from the (iimlet ledge have hIiowii 9'M) In free gold, and it Ih thought they will go much hiirher when the croHHCtit now Imlng driven eucoiinterri the ledge. In thlu croHncut ho far three dlHtlnet ledgeH have heen caught, aggregating over thirty feet with InilicatioiiH that vithin a Hhort dlHtanco tho three ledgeH will form one ImiiieiiHO vein The property Ih owned largely by Hpokane people ntul Ih well financed 5200 NUGGET FROM COW CREEK. Small Cleanup Amounts to One Thousand Five Hundred and Eighty Dollars. A. 1). Ciivln, who Ih jointly inter exted with J. L. Mohler In llvo rich placer ulalmtt on Cow Creek, eighteen iiiIIuh from the city, came in today with tho cleanup for hIx weekH work, weighing $l,rH(). One nugget tipped the Hc.aloH at Homethiiig over f'200. Thu partner control a mile and a half of ground extending along the creek and are working hut two men. They have a complete hydraulic outfit installed and working, hut iih yet they have coulliicd their Inborn to the hart In the creek and have not worked the lied. "The creek Ih but a Hhort dlHtanco from I'luo creek where good ntulf Ih being taken out ami wo have the lient of encouragement from the excellent nuggetH we are getting on the burn," Mild Mr. Cavlu to a Herald reporter. "There Ih plenty of water, iih we control prior water rlglitn. TIiIh year we excct to count riict a largo renervolr in the canyon to hold the night How and other water not being lined at prencut." The owuern are Haugiiluo and from the Hhowlug made In a hIx weekx run they feel that the amount taken out IiIiIh fair to be lucrcaxed largely before the end of the hciihoii. Mr. Cavlu retuniH tomorrow and will piinh the work, linker City Herald. SAWMILL AT DIXIE MEADOWS. Road Being Comtructtd Good Showing al Mine. Tho Dixie (iold Mining compauy'H new Hiiwmlll Ih already in operation hi w lug lumber for the new mill build, lug, boarding Iioiihch, etc., which InilldliigH will be built iih rapidly an pohHlble. The company Iiiih eight men at work on the new surveyed county road from there to Prairie City They have Ueu at work on the road for over it week. At the mine they are working with full force and development work Ih prosecuted with vigor, vim and push, and the ore shoot Ih Increasing In width and value, showing it to ho one of the largest oru bodies in Bay tho least. Oregon Historical Society. No. i of Vol. .'I, of tho Quarterly of tho Oregon iliHtorlcul Society Iiiih been received. It contaiiiH a chapter on the early Railroad History of Ore gon by Joseph (inston, an old tiewHpapor man and at ono time editor of tho Oregon Statesman; History of the PreHH of Oregon from 18II9 to 1850, by Ueorgo II. llinica; au article on "Tho Archives of Oro gon, " by Prof. I O. Voting, editor of thu Quarterly; Documents relat ing to tho Organization of Early Immigration Parties; Review of "Tho Conquest," the Truo Story of Lewis and Clark; and a sketch of, the "Historians of the Northwest," by Williiam A. Morris. Every article Iiiih a distinct historical value, ami tho Quarterly deserves a place in every library in the State. New Attorney. Fred Foutain, who has boon for some time past connected with tho olllco of Attorney N C. Richards, passed u successful legal exaiuluatlu before tho Supremo Judges tit Pendle ton last week and was granted tho necessary documents for tho practice of his chosen profession. Mr. Fontalu Ih a graduate of Mount Angel College, and has spout several years in the study of law. Ho will bo associated with Mr. Richards here. Special Round Trip Rates, Hot ween Juno 1th and August 120th Tho Illinois Central will sell round trip tickets from Oregon and Wash ington points to Chicago, Cairo, Memphis and New Orleans at Greatly Reduced Rates. Tickets good for three mouths, doing limit ten days. Returning limit ten days after starting west. Stop over privileges either way, west of the Missouri River. 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