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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1903)
COVERS THOROUGHLY THE GOLD FIELDS of the INLAND EMPIRE EASTERN INVESTORS IN OREGON MINES Pay for AND READ IT BURNT RIVER ROAD OPEN FOR TRAVEL Wagons Can Drive Through Next Saturday Evening At 6 O'clock. HISTORY OF ENTERPRISE. Great Benefit to the Farmers and Business Men of Sumptcr Only Agricultural District Tributary to This Camp - Ranchers Formerly Had to Drive 45 Miles to Market. Hat unlay cvmiiiiK, Ootolwr 17, tin wiikoii ritnil from Hiiinplor to tho lliirnt rlvi'ry country will ho opttn to trnvol, though KnidliiK of tho ciittro distance, l!t'u mill's from thn cimm tory to KIiikh' numb, will not Imvu hi't'ii cut truly onmpliit(d liy tluit tliut'. Tim riuht-nf-ttay Iimh boon oli'iiri'il mill uiikoiih cull ut tlmt time, drive through. About two wcckN more will tic rcinilrcil to IIiiIhIi tlnKrailln. I. X. Doiiiui, who Iiiih 1mcii ut work on tho roml, HiiyH tlmt it Ih iiii excel lent hlKhwuy mid follows tho only tVaslhlo route. The lieuelltH which Sumpter Ih Hiiro to derive from the onnstritotion of this tlioroiiKhfiiro am Inostiinablo, Htul tho thiiukH of tho community arc duo to tho Kent lemon who pnshod tho ontorprlso through to h sui'oossfiil ooiiHummiitlon. TIiIh liurut rlvor country Ih tho only aurlmiltural sootloii that Ih trlliutary to thin camp. In nil tho yours koiio liy, tho farmers there have hud to haul tho product of their faruiH to linker City, a dlstanoo of forty-live iiiIIch, mid cell there In a dull market, in competition with farm produce from other nol(hbor hoodri. Now they can drive In one third the iliMauco and Hud a ready, prolltalile market for overythiiiK they ralt-c. The road Ih also n jjret idvautaKo to the farmerH. Mayor McColloch Iiiih collected aliout CfiOO of the money snhscrlbod liy the olti.eiiH of Sumpter for tho constiiictlon of the road, and the remainder will lie paid in u few days. Tho history of this road inakcH mi iutorcHtlui! local story. More than two yearn uo, the euterprUe wiih Hrst launched. There wiih violent opposl tlou to it trom certain iiuirterH, solllshnosH tielui; the motive. The local people who mummed the leadership In tho cuterprlHo woro "rviiohnd" in somo way by tho in toreHlH aiitiiKouiHtia to Sumpter, tboy liucnmo suddonly imictlvo and tho proposition wiih n failruo. Last fall Mayor McColloch rovlvod tho plan, announced that ho couldn't bo "culled off," nud backed up by Hovoral prolmnnnt oitlzoiiH, notably Messrs. (iloiiHou and O' Hourko, culled on tho town for HiibHcrlptiouH, ineutlnK with a KenorouH rsponsc, iih Ih tho ohso with all worthy objects lu Sumpter. Tho opposition carried tho IlKht Into tho board of county commlHHiouorH and owIiik to tho loyalty of CouimiHHiouor (Sloason, Hiipported by tho chairman, Judo Travllliou and tho member from tho Pan Handle, another victory wiih won. To thoHo gentlemen are duo tho credit for tho liurut Hlvor-Snmp-ter wiikuii road. VISITS CAMP. Dr. Stapish, of Indiana, Here to Look After Properties. Dr. V. J. StaplHh, of Anderson, Indiana, treasurer of tho lnldaua MlnliiK uompHiiy, operating tho MarH Kroup of copper claluiH near linker Olty, and a director iu tho luplter (iold Mining compauy, formerly tho Hoosler Hoy company, operating tho I'ralrio DlgglngH, accompanied by Manager Messuor, of tho latter property, panned through tho city tills rnlug onrouto to tho DlgglngH. They spent some time at the MarH group. To n Minor ' hilHIUIJIllllllllllll fB. Watll.llul. tllllll . "It has been two yearn since 1 was iu tho district and 1 note a great many changes and a wonderful Im provement. At tho Mam group of copper claims which wo have just visit ed, we are putting dowu a double com partment shaft, and will Install it sinking plant with a depth capacity or 500 feet within thirty days. Tho shaft is now dowu about sixty-live feet and thin in about tho limit withut sinking machinery. Tho property in looking extremely well and I am well sutlstled with itn development." Speaking of business conditions iu tho east Dr. Stapish, wild: "Tho country generally in prosperous, aud there are indications that the fall trade will be exceedingly heavy. An hii evidence of this even now there in a shortage of earn aud the freight business In liicrennlug every day. Tho Sumpter district is well known throughout Indiana, and I may add very favorably known. A lot of Indiana capital is invested bore, and it Is safe to say much more will bo placed In mining here iu the future." Manager Messner stated that tho deep sinking plant at the Jupiter Is in flue working order. The shaft is now down over 100 feot, and it is his purpose to sink 100 feot deeper tbon. crosscut to tho main load of tho proporty. Dr. Stapish will romaln about two weeks lu tho district beforo re turning cant. In what llttlo tiuio ho had to look around this morning boforo tho train pulled out, he ob served a great many improvements hero siuco his last visit two years Ko. BAKER COUNTY ASSESSED AT $4,039,000 FOR 1903. Tho county assessor, (ieorgo W. Jott has computed tho total assessnint for linker county for lHCKl. Tho value of tho proporty iu tho county, according to tho figures of tho county assessor is 84,0.')!). 000. This Ih an increase of 83C0000, over tho valuation last year. Thoro wiih an Increase last year over tho year previous. It was not, bowovor, as great iih tho Increase noted fom thro p esent period. Tho county board of equalization have completed their work for tho year mid it is not llkoly that any changes will bo made In tho abovo totals. Herald. PHILBRICK & FENNER MINING 4 CIVIL ENCINEERS U. S. DEPUTY MINERALSURVEYORS EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS ON MINES ROOMS 24, SANK OF SUMPTCR LOO. SUMPTER, OREOON. ) L. J. HAZELWOOD MANAGER C i Dining Room in Connection. American Plan. ) Headquarters for Mining and Commercial Men. c Sample Rooms, Stages for All Parts of Camp. j J Electric Light and Steam Heat. j j Rates $2 to $3.50 a Day. CHAS. H. CHANCE ATTORNEY AT LAW U. t. CtumliiltMr Rooms 2 and j. First Bank of Sumptcr Building, SUMPTER, OREGON p A. E. STARR. Attorney-at-Law Cintir, cor. Hlfh St. Sumpttr, Oreeno- WILLIAM WELLS ELMER CONSULTING MINING ENGINEER Office Hold Sutnpter. SUMPTER, OREGON Bedford mcNcill's code Office Phone No. joi Residence Prion No. 1 1 DR. L. T. BROCK Physician and Surgeon. Sumpttr, Oregon. I m now prepared to receive end treat patients both medical and surgical. In Iti. best equipped private tanltarium In the country Nice quiet home, with trained and epirlrmed nurae always In at endance. Up-to-date surgical work a specialty ...THE CAPITAL HOTEL.. EUROPEAN PLAN rates: si to si. bo per day free bus to & from trains no chinamen employed A. J. DENNY. Prop. Laidlaw&Steadman MILLWRIGHTS & ENGINEERS Plans & Estimates Furnished Ofllco on Cracker St., opposite Kumpter Sampling & Testing .... Works .... OREGON I SUMPTER . . a a -