VOL. IV.
SUMPTER, OREGON, JULY 29, 1903.
NO. 47
WIDE LEDGE AT
COPPEROPOLIS.
Manager Gibbs Will Carry On
Extensive Operations.
LARGE COPPER VALUES
Main Ledge Seventy-Two Feet Wide, In
cluding Fourteen Foot Porphyry Hone
Drifting in Hone for Pay Streak
Under Apex of Mouatain Character
istic QuarUburg Ore.
mountain at a depth of 1150 feet
After crosscuttlng the vein at
this point, Manager Glbbs states
that it ia his purpose to return and
drift In the opposite direction some
200 or 300 feet where there are no
less than four reins all showing rich
pay Bhoots. Ono of those, a six foot
ledge, shows ou the surface eighteen
Inohes carrying twenty-five per cont
copper. Iu this direction a depth
of over 450 feet will be galued. Mr.
Ulbba is getting In wood aud other
supplies, proparlug for extensive
winter work.
Work was resumed at tbo
Copperopolis, in the Quartzburg
district, today. Tho property baa
been Idle ' for a few weeks during
which tinio tho wood contracts were
lot and preparations mndo for
continuous development work. V.
W. Glbbs, mnnnging director, spout
several duys in tho city this week,
returning thltt morning. Tho annual
mooting of the directors was hold iu
Portlaud ii Hhort tiino ago. No
chuugoH wore mado with tho excep
tion that A. L. Llusoy whh oloctod n
director in tho placo of A. W. Dunn.
Mr. Ul bb8 states that ho will add
another drill to tho compressor
plant aud carry out au oxtonslvo lino
of dorelopmout work. Tho Copper
opolis has practically tbo same kinds
of ore- found at tho Standard. In
the main tunnol tboro Is cobalt In
commercial quantities, besides tho
usual values in gold., silver and
copper.
Tho main voln of tho Copperopolis
is soveuty-two feet wide. This
width, however, includes a fourteen
foot porphyry horse, leaving fifty
eight foot of vein mattor which
carries values throughout. A
crosscut was driven 018 feet, cutting
into tho volu forty-three feet, several
feot beyoud tho porphyry horse. It
was the intention of Mr. Glbbs only
to cut through tho horse aud drift,
but ho was absent at tbo director's
meeting aud tbo crosscut was carried
a few feet further than he Intended.
No very high values were
found at this point, siuco the
vein was encountered at a draw iu
the mountain, and a lean area was
naturally expected. After penetrat
ing the lodge tbo distance stated, a
drift was started from the crosscut In
the porphyry horse siuce this is
softer thau the voln matter and not
so expensive to work. This drift
has been carried a distance of fifty
feet, and will be driven 100 feet
further where a rlob pay shoot will
be caught uuder the apex of the
Viiit Highland.
John GrcgorOlsou, who has charge
of tbo branch ottlce of Noll J Sorou
son fc Co., at Fargo, North Dakota,
has Imsou iu tho city several days.
Ho visited tho Highlaud aud thinks
it is tho best mining proposition ho
over saw.
California Mill Tested.
Stoam was turned on at tbo now
California mill just completed
yestorday and tbo machluory moved
for tho purpose of testing it. Tho
plaut will bo in full blast In about
ton days.
LONG ORE SHOOT
AT HIGHLAND.
Company Now Driving For
Bannockburn Ore Body.
J. F. Sholton, secretary of Nel J.
Soronsou & Co., operating tbo High
land, roturuod a few days ago from
an oxtonded business trip to St.
Paul and through tho north central
west. Since his return Mr. Sholtou
visited tbo property, which ho states
continues to look fine.
Tho work has now advanced bo
yond tho four foot Glasgow ore shoot,
aud will eucouuter tho Hauuockburn
shoot In about fifty feet, it Is thought.
The former shoot ' has made a phe
nomenal showing. It is 150 foot iu
length with vloues ranging from t'M
to $300. From surfaco indications
tho Hauuockburn shoot will prove
practically tho same In extent aud
value.
Tbo Glasgow shoot in itself is a
big proposition.
BEAR GULCH LIMESTONE.
Company Will Run a Crosscut to Gain
Greater Depth.
Camp aud VYado, operating tho
Dear Gulch property, whore the
rich strike in limestone was mado,
shipped about seven tons of clay
and decomposed rock from the
overflow of tbo voln to tho Sumpter
Sampling and Testing Works this
week for treatment. Tho material
averages between f 15 aud t!!0 to the
ton In gold.
The shallow cut across tho lodge
abows it to be sixteen feet wide with
values rauglng from 980 to 9100.
Tho purpose Is to continue the old
tunnol which Is 180 feot In length a
distance of twenty-five or thirty
feet to catch tho voln at a depth of
fifty feet.
MACHINERY FOR
ALAMO MILL.
First Carload Will Be Shipped
August I From Denver.
J. P. McGuiggau, superintendent
of tho Alamo, Is In the ulty recover
ing from a sovoro attack of grippe.
Ills sawmill, ho states, has lioou sot
up and would now bo In operation
but for tho fact that a fow minor
parts of tho machinery woro omitted
from tbo shipment. Those will prob
ably arrive iu a fow duys and tho
mill will start cutting lumber for
buildings to inclose tho reduction
plant soon to bo installed.
Ah has been before slated, this Is u
ten stump mill which will bundle
about forty tons of ore a day. Tho
machinery has been ordered from tho
Smelter Supply company, of Denver,
and tho first car load will bo shipped
August 1. Mr. McGuiggau states
that it 1h his intention to push
mattors along as rapidly as possible,
aud that ho expects to havo tho mill
In oporatlou by the middle of
Octolmr. Tbo mlno, ho says, Is look
lug hotter thau ever aud ho has lots
of ore blocked out.'
ACQUIRES BEAMER TRACT.
Understood That Sumpter Valley Will
Build Shops Here.
Judge Nowbury has just closed a
deal with the Sumpter Valley
itallroad company whereby a tract
of thirty acres of land known as the
Ueainer homestead lying botweou
tbo Powder Itlver aud tho railroad
tracks was transferred to tho ml Iroad
company. The company secured an
optlou ou this piece of laud some
time ago.
It is understood that tho purchase
was mado with a view of atralghteulug
tho channel of tbo river and utilizing
tbo spa co for tho erection of shops
and other railway buildings, it Is
also stated that thoro Is a likelihood
of tho station being moved to this
locality.
Miller cap protectors. T. G, Harrison
agent for linker, Grant and Union
counties.
THE REPORT
IS FAVORABLE.
Committee Appointed In Mat
ter Of Smelter Subscriptions
Recommend Payment.
Tho committee appointed In tho
matter as to whether the Oregon
Smelting and licfluiug company has
compiled with the conditions ou
which tbo citizens of Sumpter pledged
certain mibscrltipnim to lw used In
tho acquisition of a site for a smelting
plaut, lime and iron deposits, filed
Its report this afternoon with Dr.
K. W. Mueller, general manager of
tho smelting company. The report
sots forth that the committee after
thorough examination finds that tho
terms of tho agreement have not only
been compiled with but the plant Is
much larger and more complete thau
was originally promised. The com
mittee recommends the payment of
tho amounts subscribed last fall
before work on the smelter started,
following Is the personnel of tho
cemmittee: .1. II. Stoddard, C. C.
llasche, A. .J. Ktlnson, 10. ,1. Homer
aud Hon. J. II. ItobbluH.
Ah h matter of general Interest to
the community, the smelter company
since It began work has expended
r.l,.'10H for day labor, besides tho
lumlwr which was purchased almost
entirely here, ami various other
supplllos which could Ui bought
lucidly i
SEWER BONDS.
City Recorder Will Advertise
For Bids.
An ordinance authorizing (he city
recordoi to advertise for bids on
$15,000 worth of six per cent sower
bonds wiih passed at last night's
session of tho city council. A
communication wiih read from Hubert
K. Strahorn, president of tho
Sumpter Light and Water company,
iu which ho offered to take the entire
Issue at par immediately upon the
settlement of the legality of tho
bonds. A later message received
from Mr. Htriihorn by wiree stated
that ho would take the bonds aud
allow them to bo paid at the rate of
91,000 u year.
Ordinances for the Improvement
of Auburn street hotwoii Ibex and
Centor were laid over on account of
certain remonstrances received frout
property owners.