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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 7, 1903)
Wednesday, October 7, 190$ THE SUMPTER MINER DYKE CAVED. Quartzite Chimney Smashes Things at Gold Bug. NO ONE IS HURT. Damage Repaired And Work Proceed, tag as Usual Formation Thought to Indicate Presence of Blind Ledge Consignment of Supplies Sent In. lug of tho Uolcouda management Mr. Davidsou sulci: "I was very greatly impressed with tho excellent work going on at tho Uolcoudn. Everything is going ltko clock work, superior stupes lire bolng opened up, ni'd pe"crally speaking tho char: e'er of the work is first class throughout." BOILER DELIVERED. Alpine Machinery Being Transferred And Soon To Be Installed. Preslednt Van Floot, of the Gold Bur was at the mine Saturday to pay off his force and also get in somo more supplies for tho winter. These were rails, powdor, fuse, and other mining material. A few days ago, President Van Vleet . states that a ten-foot quartzito dyko was cut which occalsoncd considerable trouble The dyko is Tory blocky and would not hang together after it was cut. A chimney about twenty foot high cared and had to bo filled up with timbers beforo tho work could proceed. While one of the workmen was np in the bolo fixing tho timbers, ho beard a sudden cracking, and barely escaped before a second block of rock-came down, smashing ttio lag ging and piling up things generally. It has beenicaught up now, however, and work is procedlng as smoothly as ever. Tho new croscsut where tho slough ing occrurd is now in ovor eighty foot, and Mr. Van Vleet thinks tho quartzito dyko a good indication that a blind ledgo is bolng approached. No ledge shows in this locality, but those dykos, whilo barren themselves, usually parallel gold bearing volns. It is something like 400 feet to tho main lead for which tho present crosscut is being driven. Every thing on themlue is now in sbapo for steady work. Probably Put hi Steam Pump. C .D. MoLaln, who has had charge of the machinery at the Gold Pan, is In tho city since the shut down on account of the purops's breaking. The Gold Pan people will probably, it is stated, put in a steam pump at once. SUPERIOR WORK AT COLCONDA. Thomas Lee, and A. D. Alcorn of Cincinnati, president and socretay respectivly of tho Alpine Con solidtaed Gold Mines company and Colouel John Temple Grayson, of Portland, general manager of the company, returned yesterday from the Alpine pruoperty in tho Cable Cove district. Tho boiler was delivered at the mine yesterday, and the other machinery for tho now twenty-stamp mill is being transferred. The con tract for the buildings is to bo let in a few days, and tho plant pushed to completion. DENIES REPORT. J. H. Robbins Has Not Taken Over Bear Gulch. Mr. Davidson Is Impressed With Good lyjanagement of the Property. T. W. Davidson came back yester day from the Cracker Creek district which he visited with a party of Michigan lumbermen friends of his. The party took a good look at the Golconda mill and mine. Speak- V. Wado, one of tho ownors of the Boar Gulch proproty, stated to a Daily Mluer rpresontatlvo this morn ing that tbore Is absolutely no truth in the report that he claims have been bonded to J: II. Robbins. Ho says that the matter has uovor boen under advlsemont. This is tho property whoro tho llmestono ledge, carrying an abuudnuco of freo gold, was recoutly crosscut. It Ih now bolng drifted upon, and Mr. Wado states that tho values encountered aro uniformly high. CABLE COVE 'PROPERTIES. The Camp Never Looked Better, Says Mr. Barbee of The Crown Point. T. F. Barbee, one of tho ownors of tho Crown Point in tho Cablo Cove district, says, that good 'progress is being made on the contract recently let. "Things never looked bettor in the Cove,-" said Mr. Barbee." "It Is one of the best districts tributary to Sumpter. The Red Chief, I under stand, is going to start work again In a few days, also the Overland, and Portland people bavo started working on the Crown Point Extension. It is a live camp." Timber and Homktiad' FlMap. Timber and homestead 'filings, as well as final proofs, can' be made before Charles H. Chance, United States Com missioner, office in First National Bank of Sumpter building, Sumpter, thus sav ing applicants expense of a trip to La Grande. If in want of clothing, see Neill Mer cantile compauy. nPPPlO MANDE ss&rr uhi w th & .Mi li rm IfiBAHOEWgKi? THE SCENIC LINE Through Salt Lake City, l.emlvllle, Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver, and tho Famous Itocky Mountain Scenerv bv Daylight to all points Fast. 3 FIST TRAINS DAILY BETWEEN OGDEN AND DENVER 3 MODERN EQUIPMENT, THROUGH PULLMAN AND TOUR IST.SLEEPINGICARS AND SUPERB DINING CAR SERVICE STOPOVERS ALLOWED For rates, folders and other ffi. C. M'BRIDE, Gen. 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