THE SUMPTER MINER
Wednesday, July i, 190$
TO PROVE SHOOTS
AT SOUTH POLE.
Manager Robbins Running
Cuts for This
Purpose.
Open
cu tch the ruin curly In July.
TI10 croHHCiit 1h now In 1100 feo'.
with nliout Horuiity foot yet to drive
before renuhltiK the led no. Mr. Mead
hhvh tlnit IiIh force Ih now working in
exucciuiiKly IiarcJ rock, lint tho croHH
cut Ih IioIiik carried forward as ox
pedltoiiHly hh poHslblo.
V. V. KoIiIiIiih, koik'I'iiI inaiiiiKor
or the .South Pole CoiiHolidatcd (Jold
Allium (!oiuiany, returned Monday
nlttht from thu property. He HtuteH
tlmt outH are heliiK run from the
Yankee .Mm claim to the Hiiintnlt of
the mountain to prove the ore
hIiooIh on the Hitrface and iiIho
demotiHtrate tho continuity of the
vein. TIiIh work could not he taken
up Hoouer on account of the hiiow.
Work will he roHiimi'd on the No.
1 tunnel wIioho entrance wan Iiik
out of the hiiow Home time iiko, Iiii
mediately after tho Fourth, Mr.
JtohliliiH liiniHiilf left for .Spokane
today to Hpend a few dayri with IiIh
family, and moHt of IiIh crew ipiit
today until after tho Fourth. The
No. I, which Ih n drift, Ih now in a
dlHtauce of forty-five feet, and It
will he driven ahead Home thirty-llvo
feet where the vein will lie croHHcut
to catch the rich hIkmiIh deiuoiiHtrated
on the Hiirface prohahly on the
huiiuiiiK wall of the vein.
It Ih thought that Hpleudld ore
will lie oucouiilered in thin level.
LiihL winter when the Hiirface work
wan aliaudoued at thin point on
account of hiiow, the valuori on the
outcrop ran uh IiIkIi iih $700. The
working will lie punhed ahead here
to explore t IiIh rich ore liody.
The rumored negotiations for the
aciiiiHltioii of the South Pole liy
the North Pole company, iih Mated
IiihL week, have no foundation in
fact. Mauauci ItohliliiH ulllrniH thai
nothing of the kind Ih coutimplati'l,
and that II Ih the policy of his com
pany to pusli development work as
rapidly iih pocHlhlo, iuxtall a mill iih
hooii iih the icipilremelitH demauil
and place the property on a paying
IiiihIh.
Here on Visit.
J. F. It. Welibor of San Fruuclcco,
HHHiHtaut Hfcrutury of the Home Fire
and Marine Iumirauco company, mid
u brother-in-law of It. L. Nclll, of
the Neill Mercantile company, spent
HoveraldayH in tho city thin weok vis
itiiiK Mr. Noill.
Sold Flynn Property,
Tho J. II. MacCallum company
Hold the Flynn property on Uraulto
and Ibex Htrcota this weok to tho
Uoodheart Hrothora.
TO REPORT ON
SUMPTER DISTRICT.
F. A. Wing, of Government
Assay Office, Seattle, Here
For This Purpose.
DRILLING CONTESTS.
Nlnr TfAim Entrr For Doublet on the
Fourth.
The illlllilik' coiitcHlH which will
lie one of the leading fcnliircs of the
Fnm Hi, will lie paiticipated in liy
Home of the IichI known and most
clever teauiH In the dlhtiict. Ho far
iih known at prcxeiit nine teuton will
enter for the doulilc drill. They aie
iih follewn:
A nil i oki,' and HcKHler, Virtue;
IoIiiih and Wattern, Hourue; McCor
nili'k and McKay, llouiue; Smith
and Fi'iier, (SreetihoriiH; Stapletou
and Liilvnln, (Sraulte; Itayaud Dunn,
Miilway; Scott and CiiMy, (inhlhiiK
(!rlly; I'limnery and McC'arvel,
(loldeu Wliuil; Hetideriiou and Cook,
SuHiiuville.
For the hIiikIch, there are ho fur,
three eutilen, Itihlin, Wattern and
AudrcKK. In the junior doulilen
there will prolmlily lie two teauiH
from llourne, one from Sumpter and
one from linker.
Fredorlok A. Wltift, iiHHiiyor in
charKo of tho Kovcrnmont itHnay oillco
in Seattle, npent poventl days in tho
camp liiHt weok and thin wook, rlslt
Iiik many of tho mlnoH mid tho Hinol
ter, KatheriiiK data for hitfunnuul re
port on the milieu of OroKou. Mr.
WIiik wiih hero nliout this time liwt
year for the hiiiiio purpono. SpoakliiK
of tho dintrlct generally and tho Im
provements ho observed, ho mild :
"Since my hint vUlt tho progress
throughout tho dlHtrlot Ih very pro
nounced. I noticed a groat many
luiprovemeiitH in tho way of now and
more modern machinery at the older
properties 1 visited, and a urea', num
ber of new plautH noinn In at mines
more recently opened. Tho dintrlct
lins taken a great stride forward, and
there Ih ii univcrsiil air of progrens
throughout the camp.
"There in another matter regarding
which I should like to bo ipioted.
An important feature of my report Ih
the output of the various in I lies, and
I llud this dilllcult to obtain from
thcopcrntorHthciiiHclvcH. Of course I
get it from the smelters and retlueries,
but (IiIh Ih putting me to unnecessary
double when tln operators could just
iih well furnish t IiIh information
theniHolvoH. There Ih no way of
forcing them to give mo thin datum;
but they would just iih well do It
since 1 will get it in the end."
Mr. Wing left yesterday afternoon
to visit the Washington mining dis
trict, on IiIh return to Seattle.
WORK AT GLADSTONE.
Superintendent Siyi Vein Will Be En
countered Early in July.
W. II. Mead, superintendent and
one of the lending owners of tho
Gladstone, in the lloiiulua district,
who npent several dayri in tho city
thls'week, states that he expects to
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