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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1903)
Wednesday, July 8, 190? THE SUMPTER MINER 12 .INDEPENDENCE CONTRACT LET. George Barrett Will Do Ex tensive Work on This Property. Mr. J. V. March, one of tlio Spo kiini) owner of (ho Independence mini) ncitr horn, spent several i1ii-h in tho camp tho font part of tho week, returning toHpnknno Tuesday. Wliilo horo ho iimilii 11 thorough examination of (ho mini), hml (ho underground workings surveyed, inn) iiIho lot u ronlnii'l for 11 roiiHiiloralilo iiinomit of futiiro ilovolopmont work. '1'ho contract wiih Hi'i'iiioil liy Hon. (ico. ,1. Ilnrrotl, who hud (ho lowest of four IiIiIh. It ciiIIh for :i, 100, mill Ih to coiihIhI or 'J00 font of drift, I ft foot Of llpllllHO tl) tllp till) llOttotll of n shaft, to hIiiIc on tho ledge 100 fool. Mr. Ilurrott will cnuimcncu working on tho cniitinct Immodiiitoly iiftor tho Fourth, whon n crow of ton mon will ho put on and tho work piirihod iim rapidly mm pohnIIiIo. Two shift will lio workod in tlio drift, mid three eight hour shiftH in Hhaft. It. 10. Lalondo Ih to havo charge of. tho wink. Tho ownoi'M of tho Independence aio ilohorvimt of comniondatloii fori tho thorough and piuctlnil nmnnor in. which they lire developing tho prop erty. That they aro plcuxcd with (ho iohiiIIh Ih hIiowii liy thoir expieHHion of pli'iiHiiro at oaoli visit to tlio prop orty. (Jrnalto (loin. INSPECTED HIAWATHA. Minnesota Representative Re ports Favorably on Property. At tho instance of tlio (iruy Invest niont I'ompatiy, incorporated, it prom inont MinnoHota ImimIiiohh man, arrivod horo Kuturdiiy, and accompanied liy Tom C dray, secretary of tho com pany, visited tho Hiawatha group lu (ho Cahlo Cove district Sunday with it vlow to closing a doal for a largo block of Htook on which an hhhocIii (Ion of MinnoHota people have hold an option for hoiiio tiino. It Ih under stood t hut tho Mluuctiota represent!! tlvo mailo a thorough inspection of tho oiitlio group, and while Mr. (iruy Iiiih no very dcllulto Information to give out, from what ho Intimated, it wax Inferred tho icprcscututlvo wiih BEST BUY IN EASTERN OREGON I have io.ooo Shares of Gilt Edge Mining Stock, on which it is absolutely necessary that I raise some money. It is in the Grizzly Gold Mining Co. You can have it in one bunch for j cents, in broken blocks 4 cents, j Address BERNARD FLYNN SUMPTER, OREGON well pleased, and that tho Minnesota people will put a fund for continuing ilovolopmont oporatiotiH on a more extensive scalo. Tho Hiawatha Ih a group of four claims located iu tho Cable Cove dis trict parallelling tho Valley Queen, and Ih operated by tho Hiawadia Gold Mining company. Development work Ih now going on. On both tho Hia watha and Kininii clainiti, which ad join, (ho former liolng situated on (ho Lake Creok slope and tho latter on tho Monumental, shafts aro being sunk on tho vein. Tho Hiawatha Hhaft, an incline, Ih down thirty-four feet in oro, the bottom of which as say 818 a ton in gold. Tho Emma Hhaft I down twenty-eight foot and Iiiih i?1.'I ore. Tho two shafts are 700 foot apart. The proxeiit work Ih being dono with a view to determining (he (rend of (ho veiux at depth, and alxo tho boxt location for a eminent to tap (ho two ledge of tho property. Resolution of Intention to Im prove Anburn Street. Ho it Itoxolvod by tho common council of tho City of Smnptor in mooting duly and regularly axxeiu bled, that tho City of .Smnptor through it proper olllcorx, intendx to lmproro Auburn Street from tho Wext lino of Ibev Street Kastorly (o a point where tho Wext lino of tho alley in tho center of block 11, Siimptor Heights, MuKwou'h addi tion (o the City of Smnptor, nx xliown on tho plat of wild addition, of rec ord in the olllco of (ho Itccordor of Convoyiincex of linker County, Oro gon, extended Southerly would inter sect hiiIiI Auburn Street. That wild Improvement Khali con sist of OKtablixhliiK a grade of said xtreet, removing all obstructions therefrom, KradltiK tho xamo (o (ho grade xo extablixhod and laying all necexxary gutter along said xtreet. Said improvement Ih to bo mado at (ho expense of (ho property ownerx to bo benellted, ax provided by tho City Charter. Adopted by the council thix 27th day of dune, 11H)!I. S. S. 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