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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1903)
VOL. V. SUMPTER, OREGON, OCTOBER 28, 1903. NO. 8. FAMA6LE REPORTS FROM MOUNT RASTUS. William Stinson Says There Are Boundless Possibilities There, But Little Development. William Stinson, Charley Ferry nnd T. B. Lawrenoo returned last evening from tlio Mount Kaatua district. They report that hundreds of prospectors are scattered through tho country over au area fourteen miles In extent. There is nometalk of a townalte there, but the proposl tlon is in a nebulous stato as yet. Unolo Uill Stinson says: "I can't toll you any moro about the district, so far as its gold produc ing possibilities are concorned, tbau you have already published. Thero is no questolu but what thoro is a great phonollte deposit thoro, extend ing for miles. There Is plenty of mineralized rock on the surface of the veins, tbat carries values, mostly low, of course, as everywhere. The basis of the excitement is the faot, as every practical and scientific miner knows, tbat phonollte indicates the presence of tellurldes, which carry the highest gold values known to mineralogy. In a tellurlde camp money is just as easy as in a rlob placer district, there J,s always moro of it and, unlike the diggings; these camps are permanent propositions. "I saw some samples that' looked like telluiide and heard of some as says from reliable sources that would seem to confirm the looks of the rook. There is not sutHolent development work done yet to prove tho value of the Hud; but there is unquestionably bouudless possibilities there and you know prospectors and mining men are not looking for a sure thing; they are williug to take obauces. If they were not, there would today bo no miuiug camps In tho west. It is such stampedes as this that have caused to be rovealed the existeuco of and aftcrwurds in I nod uiuety por cent of the gold woulth of tho world." Iu all of which Uncle Bill is right, as he usually is. Only the cur in the muugor, tho knokor and the blackmailer, or the ignorant ass stauds put a ud says some newly dis covered camp is no good, ile doesu't know anything about it, therefore, his condemnation is transparently dishonest aud his prsenco Iu any camp Is a detriment. J Mike Mahonoy, tho discoverer of the Iron Dyke, the Flagstaff aud other big mines iu eastern Oregon, acknowledged to bo one of the best prospectors In the state, says he worked over that section two years ago; that on Bull Run, four nilles from Rastus, thoro are somo as line looking ledges as ho ever saw. Mr. Stinson says that the Whitehead Brothers havo located n group of claims thero nnd aro getting good assays from surfaco ore. The for mation Is tho samo as that on Mouut Rastns. The Baker City Herald of last evening says: Mr. Chambers came in from the new camp in the Rastus district at 2 o'clock this morning, bringing with him several samples of ore from bis claim there. Assays wero mado of tho samples by Mr. Torrey and some surprising results were obtained. Oue sample ran $400 to the ton and the concentrates from It gave the phenomenal figure of 87,400 per ton. Tho button ob tained from half a pound of concen trates wiegbed CO grains. OLIVE CREEK AND TRIPLE ALLIANCE. E. Tahiti of the Olive Creek and Triple Alliance companies. Is In town today. Tho Triple Alliauce group is situated on Olivo Creek, the west Hue being one half iiillo from Roljiusouville. The couth lino joins tho north lino of tho Olivo creok group. At somo fnturo ditto the two properties may ho consolidated, as stock In both Ih held by the same stockholders. Mr. Tohln bought eighty acres from Messrs. Sutherland and Mo Laugbliu, aud already owned sixty acres on the east and west, the eighty acres purchased is owned equally by T. M. Tobiu, Cieorge Hubbard and E. Tobln, all of Chicago. They have a shaft down twenty-two feet on the Calumet, which la in the center of the group. At a depth of even feet a ledge three and one half feet was uncovered and panned values. At a depth of twelve feet samples aorosa the ledge averaged better than sixteen dollars In gold. Mr. Tobln says: "Directly north 4000 feet on the Red Bell, of the Olive Creek group, we havo a lodgo on which we have drifted thirty feet without finding tho hanging wall, and were theu driven out by water. The ore in this drift shows values from 810.70 to (30 aud as the quartz Is heavily stained with copper, I would not bo surpprlsed If it turned iuto a gold-copper ml no. There is no doubt of a continuous ledgo for 4 DUO feet. Throe other ledges, prospected by shafts, show values from 82. CO to 81100. Wo aro still sinking on the Caluti o shaft and from what is already shown there Is no question whatever but tbat wo aro in tho right 'place, whioh will bo mining news in tho near future. f-"The Olivo Creek company may sond In pumps and hoist for tho Red Bell No. .'1 this fall; If not, as early iu tho spring as tho wcathor will per mit. Wo havo over 1,200 foot of underground work, with a dopth'of 240 feet, showing two feet of soveu dollar base ore, from ten to thirty feet iu thedilfts. "Wo aro ready for machinery, as tho ground is fully prospected aud thoro Is no question but what thoro is mineral aud plenty of it." PLACERS AT GOLD CENTER YIELDING WELL E. J. Wallace was In today from the claims ho receutly located at Gold Center. Latoly ho bus been do- voting his time and utteutiou to some plauor giound which ho holds In connection with tho quartz locutions. The placors bo says havo been yielding good returns, but owing to tho scarcity of water thoy cannot bo worked to the fullest extent. Ho Is goiug to put In a pump, however, which will relievo the situation to a great extent. Ike's Rich Strike. Ed Huiiner, Wlllium Sanders and Albert Weiss returned yesterday from a trip to Rock Cieek where Mr. Weiss mid Ike WilliuuiHou own a couple of claims, regarding which mention wus inudo u few days ago in connection with a good stilko. Messrs. Ilauser and Sunders went to look ut the property, uud they state that it has every a'ppeuruuce of becoming vuluuble with the proper devo'opment. VICTOR GROUP. Mr. Hanauer Pleased With Development Work. A. 11. Hanauer, of Spokane, who with busiuesss associates some months ago took over tho Victor group iu tlie Cracker Creok district, and Harry Heudryx, of tho Mclser Hondryx Investment compauy, which baa the management of the develop ment work, woro out at tho property yosterdHy. Mr. Hanauer Is hero to familiarize himself with the situation aud unto tho progress being made. Ho is well pleased with the way thlngH aro going and thinks tho property will undoubtedly be on a produuiiiK basis within tho next six months. Ho says: "I mado an examination of tho mine yesterday and 1 am well pleased with tho present showing. All tho workings aro In ore and I feel that I am speaking conservatively and advisedly when 1 say the Victor la destined to make a good paying prop erly. The funds necessary to proseauto dovolopmeut work for months to corao have breu raised, and with the com pressor plant which we intend install ing lu tho neur future thero Is uo reason why even greater' prngrcssj than in tho past cannot be made. In six months I expect to have tbo property on a producing basis. I am greatly pleased with the manage ment and tho economical expenditure of funds to date. Every foot of woik hus counted. "The Victor is certainly iiiiii. favorablo locality If proximity to big , producers counts for anything. It adjoins tho E. and E. and also tho Talior fraction where the rich striko was recently made. It Is a settled fact from reports made that the split off from the Columbia and the Tabor f met ion passes to the mouth of tho Victor tunnel, and it i-ccins not only reasiiouble to suppose but prauticallv certain that we will get the samo rich ore found iu the other two properties, and also in the 10. and E. When the the tunnel reaches bin vein, 1 feel sure that the Cracker Creek (Sold Mines company will bo able to report some good news to Mh HtnckholdeiH. "