VOL. V.
TROLLEY
NEEDED.
Crush Yesterday Between
Here and Bourne, Near
Half-Way House.
HERE IS AN OPENING.
Twelve Teams in Less Than Half
Hour Piled Ip Last Chance
Boiler Stuck Shows a Heavy
Traffic Opening For an Electric
Road To Cracker Creek and
Cable Cove.
Late yesterday iifternoon the
Last Cbanco boiler which is being
hauled to tho property not stuck just
boyoud tho Half Way house, on tho
liuuruo road, and for the space of
half an hour whllo tho hitch lasted,
traffic wns greatly impeded. M. E.
Uaiu. who was returning from tho
Cablo Cove district and was a witness
to the scone, says:
"This littlo incident furnishes a
flood text for tho necessity of better
transportation facilities botwoeu
Sumpter and tho Curcker Crook and
Cable Cove districts. Whilo tho
jamb lasted, and it was only half an
hour, no less than a dozou teams
wore caught In it and bad to wait
till the boiler could pass on and they
could Ret around It. Take this brief
period as basis for calculating the
dally traffic over this pieco of road,
and you can form sonio idea as to its
immensity, scores of wagons, loaded
with oro, concentrates and mine
supplies pass over this road overy
day. The traffic is exceptionally
heavy, It is daily increasing, and
will continue to increase with tho
development of theso important mlu
lug districts. It is generally known
that the rates for hauliug are not
tho lowest, and in fact consid
ering tho character of the road can
not be made very low, by teamsters
who are iu the custom business.
"The situation demands better
transportation facilities. Here is
an opening for some enterprising
man with money to get in and build
an electric line. It would not only
greatly aid in the development of
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the mineral resources of these
districts but it would prove a paying
Investment to its owners."
LAST CHANCE BOILER
STUCK ACAIN TODAY.
Tho Last Chance pooplo are huviug
trotiblo with getting their boiler
delivered at tho property. Last
night with twolvo horses attached
tho bollor stuck near tho Half Way
hoiiBO. In n short timo tho heavy
frolght was extricated, and moved
on. A roport today states that
further on tho bollor again stuck lu
tho mlddlo of tho road, and a way
had to bo made around It to let other
teams turn out.
WORK BEGUN ON
BLUE BIRD MILL.
O. C. Wright, president and
general manager of the Hluo Bird,
loft today to start tho construction
of tho mill to be erected at ouco on
tho property.
The grading for tho foundation has
already been completed and tho con
struction of tho buildings and tho
Installation of tho niuchinory will
procoed at ouco. The Illno Uird
plant Is to bo n hundred ton concen
tration with Sturtevant rolls, and all
modern equipment.
When completed it will bo among
tho best and most complete plants in
tho district. A largo force has been
eugaged for tho building of tho
mill and work will be rapidly carried
to completion.
TO GET UNDER RICH
SHOOT AT ADELENE
Warren Cable, superintendent of
tho Adolene in the Cable Cove
district regarding tbo work at tho
property states that tho lowor
crosscut he thinks is now within
seven or eight feet of the vein.
It is his purpose when tho lead Is
encountered to drift a dlstauco of
some S00 feot lu order to got under
the rich oro shoot shown on tho
surface. This shoot shows somo
very phenomenally high values, on
the surface, Mr. Cable states, and
with dopth a rich oro body may Ihi
expooted. The property is being got
in shape for wiuter operations.
VEINS PROBABLY MEET.
M. E. Bain, who cume in from the
Overland in the Cable Covn district,
states that the pay streak which
showed fifteen inches in the shaft a
'
few days ago has widened to four
feet and only oue wall has been
encountered.
It was thought that tho hanging
wall had been readied but it looks
as if thoro Is a contluouco of two
veins, aud tbo oxtout of tho oro body
is not known, but it 1b vory much
more than expooted.
SCANMA TUNNEL.
W. Wado, superintendent of tho
8c and In Tunnol iu tho (irimlto
district, returned from tho prop
roty yesterday. Tho long crosscut
Is now In 2,J0 feot with about 8(10
foot further to drivo before encounter
ing tho main load. Iu driving tho
dlstuuco mentioned, several small
veins wero cut, which will bo drifted
on later.
Tho main ledgo shows a width of
from eight to fourteen feot ou tho
surface, carrying good values. Tho
crosscut will giro a - doptrrof over
1,200 feet.
ALAMO TEN STAMP
MILL IS GOING IN.
All tho machinery for tho Alamo
ton-stamp mill has been delivered at
Whltuoy aud Superintendent Mo
Uuiagii was iu tho city today to
ongago teamsters to transfer It to tho
property. Tho buildings have been
practically completed, Mr. Mcdulguu
states, aud work is now proceeding
ou the tramway.
The sawmill, installed a milo from
tho ml no to cut lumbor for tho
buildings, is to bo moved nearer
tho property aud will bo used to get
out mining timbers as thoy are
needed.
SHIPPING $200 ROCK
FROM BEAR GULCH.
Camp aud Wado havo arranged to
work their Boar (lulch property, lo
cated a milo and a half boluw town,
on a 7ory much largo scale than here
tofore Today thoy put ou two full
shifts of men aud will soon bo In
polstlou to ship twenty-five tons.
Johu Arthur, of the Sumpter
Sampling Works was at tho mine
yesterday .and estimated that thoy
can sort the oro and select that
amnuut that will run 8200 a ton.
Tho smoltors aro all anxlousfto got
this rook, becauso of tho fact that It
carries a large per cent of limo.
Several parties havo boon trying to
buy the property of late, but this now
move would indicate that Camp and
Wade will operato it themselves.
NO. 6.
WELL PLEASED
Nebraska Man Visits the
Cracker Greek District
A GREAT MINING GAMP.
Mr. Cross, of Lincoln, Thinks Camp
Best in Country Talks About
Golconda, Cracker Eagle and
Cracker Summit Good Work at
These Properties.
1. A. McLaughlin, secretary of tho
Killen, Warner, Stewart company
and A. Cross, of Lincoln, Nebraska,
returned last night from a trip to tho
Cracker Creek district. This is Mr.
Cross's llrst visit to tho camp and ho
Is well pleased with what ho saw.
Ho says:
"I find the mining situation hero
vastly better than 1 expected to
find It. I was at tho Cracker Summit,
Cracker Kaglo and (lolcouda. At
tho Cracker Summit tho strength of
the vein is well displayed by drifts
and I consider this u very promising
property. The Cracker Kaglo people
are encountering highly mineralized
stringers of quartz, and there Is every
appearance of the vein's being
broken into. The Cracker Summit
Is having cabins prepared, and doing
prospect aud assessment work ou tho
south end of the claims, getting ready
for continuous whiter work. Tho
drift is now iu over (100 feet showing
an ore body twenty feet iu width.
"I found tho (lolcouda particularly
active, and was greatly impressed
with this property. I have visited
many other mining rumps in tlilu
country, aud so much as I have seen
of tho Sumpter camp It compares
most favorably with the others I havo
seen."
IN FROM VALLEY QUEEN.
Tom C, dray Is iu from the Valley
Queen today ou busiuess. The drift
on vein No. 4, he states Is showing
up well. Tho face now shows tho vein
to bo thirty-six inches carrying 12 1-
0 ore on an average. Mr. dray
is just I n 'on a flying trip aud will
return ut once.
FOUR LOADS OF MACHINERY.
Four louds of heavy machinery
weut out to tho Alpine yesterday.
Tho company Is pushing work towurd
tbo installation of its twenty-stamp
mill.