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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1903)
THE StIMPTER MINER Wednesday, October 14, 190$ The Sumpter Miner CIIHLmiHI) IVRKY wpDNBUAT J. W CONNELLA 0. (WYNNE, EDITOR tntertd at thr pmtofflce li Sumpur. OrtK'in, for frantml.tmn through Ihi malU teconJ cUti maltrr. SUHNCNII'lll'N IMItS On Yrf ... SI i Monlht $1 on ALWAYS IN AIIVANCU. OniCIAL IWEK OP lllli CITV OP SUMI'TEH 'J'lin I'ortliinil Telegram throw n in oral spasm ovor tho steer roping content ut tho Sumpter mini moot. It rmyri that bullfighting Iiiih no greater cruelties, mill (inmtliiiiH in n rilit oniiHly Indignant inuiinor how 11 town could "permit tho baiting of a mud donod Htoor, wounded, ferociously turning upon IIh tnrmontnrH. " With out slopping In explain In tint Tola Kraut that tho stoor was not wounded nor wiih anyone hurl, It can bo mad lly soon why a Portland newspaper would fall In appreciate thin iIiihIi of tdroiiiiniin llfn IIiIh eliiiriiclorlHtlo wcHtorn sport. A polulo raeo, or a pin outing contest would prolmlily lui inoro In Hun with tin agricultural IiIoiih of Portland, lint tint Hiuack of tint riml went, with IIh tiulnilout iih Union and IIh manly diversions Ih a hit too Hwlft for .a community of farmers. Linger among your wine presses, () Portland, yank tho lacteal from tho Imisiiiiih of your kino, plant your prune ami garner in your hay crop I lull If a vlgoroun community liko Sumpter hooh tit to manifest IIh ivild western ways liy roping tho fon tlvo NtiMtr, piay don't lit too severe, don't lay on tint md of chastisement ion heavily. Ah hIiowii in tho news colli iiiiim of Tho Minor a day or ho ago, tho vacant houses In Sumpter do not begin to supply tho domiind, Homeless folk tiro dally being turned away fiom loutal offices. Tho fuel of tho mat ter Ih that thorn Iiiih not lioou a timo dm lug tho spring and Hiimmor moutliH when Iidiisoh Imve hIooiI tenant Iohh for any length of timo; lint tho de mand senilis to Imve increased null viilly within tho piiHt fow weeks. TIiIh shortage Ih to lie deplored. It i. not pleasant to think of women and child ron having to camp out or bleep in (cuta dining the cold winter iiioiiIIih. or worse still seek a oily of icfiigo oIhowIioio, yet It hIiowh at loan4 a healhty condition lieie. It shown that thorn are many people coming Iicio locust their lot with iih, to engage in trade or to nook employment. Tho ureal scope of mining country look 1 iik l Sumpter iih tho chief point of supply, and the steady development of tho mineral roHorucoH in thin re gion are liouud to make It a good business town, becoming more and morn attractive to outside capital. Another fact Ih iiIho to lie pointed out. Money In voided in houses mid IoIh horn Ih capital judiciously ox pendiHl, Hiid with tho iiHHuraiicn that a good Intercut will lie yielded. TIiIh should certainly produce an activity lu thn building industry which would create a supply equal to tho domalid. Tho Minor could not at thin hIhko of thu game be induced to perpetrate on ItH liiolfonding readorH a dlssortu tiuu 011 tho Hilvcr question, In IIh relation to our politics-dominated curreuoy. It In not good form. No paper over mentions the subject these days, except those, that made fooln of tboniHolveH denouncing the beautiful whlto roouoy metal, as partleuu publications aro'wont to do, mid thn burden of their song in over and alwayH and euly: "The nilver issue Ih dead," knowing tho while that It Ih not. During thn past fow months silver Iiiih occupied n lime-light position lu thu commercial iiffairH of tho world and IIiIh Ih tho Minor's oxciiso for publishing those scientific and historic factn, takou from an ex change: Silver Hold abovo Hixty conta por ounce lu Now Vork last wook. Onco uguiu thin beautiful whlto niotal baa become an interesting topic bocuuso of ItH rccout rapid rlso lu prlco; and It Ih In ordor that the motulH main foaturori bo UKaiu produced. Silver weighs loss than gold, but it la rulativuly harder, but Iimh hard thau coppor. It Iiiih a tomiclty about equal to gold and iiiuHh at a tnmpuraturo about oqiiul to coppor. Among tho motulH of commerce it Ih tho whltont, oven tin bolug perceptibly Iohh white. Ita worrit feature Ih Its liability to tartiiHli when oxpiiHod to Hiilphur In any way, nun tluiH Hilvor warn in citlen iiitiHt uoccossarlly bo denned lupcatedly It Ih too Hoft to bo lined iu an uualloyuil Htato, coppor alwayH glv liiK it a harduoHH in colon. It can bo beatou Into leaven of Iohh than 1 100,000 of an inch in thickuoHH, anil wire of extreme tenacity can bo drawn out. It iiioKh at a full rod heat of 1,870 dcL-reeH K. Silver at oun limn wiih valued higher than Kold. From thn earl lent of times to the proHont day IIh value iih compared with Mdd Iiiih varied much at dllforent poriodH. lu tho llfth century, 11. C throughout tho Kant old wiih val ued at nix to eluht tlmeH iih much iih nilver, and iu I'lato'n timo their rela tive vuluoH were iih ton to one, and thin ratio continued a long time, or up to tho Hixloeuth century. Iu tho Hovcutccuth century tho now world V output of nilver made tho ratio iih hIxIcoii to one, but lu tho oiLthcouth century it rono to fouiteen to one, and for much of thn nineteenth cen tury it hold at llfteen to 15'... to ouo. Tho proi-cut ration Ih about thirty-four to ouo. Silver oich are not iiumorouH, the important ouch being native Hilvor, urgent lie, pyrorgyrlto, proiiHtllo. Htophaiiito and cerargyrlte. Con Hidorablo of tho metal Ih found native, and tho urgent Iforous galena oreH furnlHli a largo percentage of the world'a production. In 18(10 tho United Stilton' prduoctlou of nilver wiih but ? 150, 0110, and lUOIl, J8tl.588.0U0. tu FOUND OLD CHANNEL ON GRANITE CREEK. Malinger Ciimou, of tho Milwaukee placer ground, reports If the weather holds favorable for tbo next fow weokx ho will complete his working tentH of tho placers that baa been lu progress throughout tho summer. Piping Into tho large elevator has boon going steady now for a uumlwr of weeks until they have cut 150 feet iu length about twenty-four feet deop and fully fifty feet wide at the top. A fow feet of gravel was left on tho bedrock, which remalus to bo ruu through the box a before the bedrock can bo cleaned and tho test completed. Tula week tbo workmen broke into a bed of gravel under a large bank of clay which has .ovory appearance of being tho dopoait from an old gray channel of (J rani to creek. It la too early yet to atato bow much of the yellow metal this gravel will carry though it haa tbo appearance of boing a rich discovery. Tbo dopoait wboro found ia over twenty foot bolow tho present level of tho creek. The holdings of the Milwaukee Placer company tako In full three mtloH of Granite creek and compriae several hundred acres of patented ground; also a suftlcleut body of water to work on a largo scale aa lato aa tho weather will permit In the fall. The property was worked quito successfully a numbor of years ago, but owing to disagreements among the ownoro was closed and baa remained idle until started by Mr. Carson's compauy. Uranlto Ooni. GOLD NUGGETS DO NOT "GROW." It has bou stated repeatedly bore iu that gold nuggets do uot "grow," regardlesH of tho uumoroiiH "theories" to tho contrary. Thero is no rational ovldonco to lend to tho belief that u mass of gold onco In cluded in tho loose material of a gulch, which rcprcHouts tho breaking down or disintegration of tho neighbor lug hillsides, over accumulating u single atom of gold to Itself, or in creases hi any niauncr. either iu wlcght or bulk. The oft repeated story that gold nuggtes contain n little grain of Mind or iron oxido as a uuceluH, about which tho nugget has boon built up, is u myth. Gold is derived from veins or deposits iu solid rock In place, and from tho moment of IIh exposure to tho powers of disiutcrgatlnii and erosion it begins to grow smaller. In size and weight, and iih gold iu its original state iu tho rocks Ih universally rough, with sharp edges, or a gen erally ragged appearance; when a nugget is found smooth and rounded by the attrition of tho rocks with which it has boon associated iu the stream bed, it is safe to suy that such a nugget has lost n largo portion of its original weight and slzo by tho process. The theory that gold nug gets grow iu placer or alluvial de posits of any kind Is not suscoptlblo of direct proof. Mining and Scion title Press. Rights Secured by a Patent. When the government Issues a pa tent ton mining claim that patent I secures to tho holder of tbo claim tho J exclusive right to all veins apoxlug1 within bis territory as defined by , tho Hues of his claim. Tho question of extralateral right, however, has beeu a subject of litigation, and uot boon positively determined by the United States Supreme court. The question arose over priority of location as Iwtweou a niluiug audau adjolniug argioultural patent. Un der the lawB of 1800 tbo end lines of a mluiug claim ueod uot of neces sity be parallel, and claims located under that 'aw where tho end Hues were uot parallel have uot beeu de nied tho privilege of taktug the ex tralateral right, even though the diverging Hues wero in tho direction of tbo dip of the vein, consequently giving to the claim owner au Increas ingly greater leugth of the vein wtih Increasing depth. No precedent haa as yet beeu established by the United States Supremo court regarding the mutter. As to claims having parallel end lines, where located under the laws of 1866 or those nf 1872, the claim owner has the extralateral right. Mining, and. Scientific Press, MOONSHINER'S STORY. Where the Corn is Full of Kernels and the Colonels Full of Corn. Androw Jackson Bess, now em ployed at the I. X. L. mlno, formerly . lived lu Tennessee where he confesses he carried on a flourishing business as a wild cat distiller. lie had an ingenious device by which he evaded tho rovenuo officers. Yesterday in tbo presence of "Doc" Edwards, also a Tennessean, and a Minor man, ne related bis exporlenco as a moon- shiuor. Here it ia: "For years I carried on a flourish ing business, uud not a rovouuor over tumbled. I bad my wild cat joint right near a cornflold and in plain sight, but nobody ever saw a whiff of smoke riso from it. Tbo smoko you know ia u dead glvo away and tbo sign which leads to discovery. Hut I fixed that good and plenty. A dlstlllory must havo a supply of water, so I urraugod a llunio to carry tho water in and thn smoko out. Tho llumo run right into my chimney and tbo smoko wont right up It. Nobody oxcopt my customers wero tho wiser, uud It wiih a dead sure thing they wouldn't peach. "O, yes, I know "Doc" Edwards well flue old southern family. In fact "Doc" uud I were in part norsbip (but is I mado tbo liquor, uud "Doc" consumed it." Gold and Silver Production. Rovisod statistics show that tho United States produced 880,000,000 of gold during UIO'2 and 55,5000,00 ounces of silver, having ucopimerciiil value of 20,415,000. Colorado Ih on llrst in both gold and silver production, having yiolded 828,108, 700 of tho yellow metal and 15,07 0,000 ou lien of tho whlto metal, tho entire being valued at 88,:i08,'J80. California Is u good Fcond aa a gold producer, with 810.71121,00 whilo Montana comes closo to Colorado, us regards silver, with a output of 1112,438,00 ounces valued at 870, 102,14. Alaska has wou tho third place, ranking next to California, as a gold mining region. NOTICB OF STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING. Notice is hereby given that a moot ing of tbo stockholders of tho Little Ciuckor Gold Mining and Milling; compauy will bo bold iu tbo otiloo of tho compauy at Sumtper, Oregou, Novemlier 5, 1003, at tbo hour of 10 o'clock, a. m. to elect officers for the ensuing year and transact any other business that may come before said . meeting. D. E. W1LLARD, Secretary. If in want of clothing, see Neill Mer cantile company. Ice Crtaml Ice Crctm! On, and each day after May 1st the renowned Hazel wood Ice Cream and Ice Cream Soda will SturglH's. 10 cents a ceuts per pint. be bad at dish, 25 Shoes of all kinds at Neill Mercantile company's.