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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1903)
COVERS THOROUGHLY THE GOLD FIELDS of the INLAND EMPIRE EASTERN INVESTORS IN OREGON MINES Pay for AND READ IT FALL BUSINESS CONTINUES GOOD Better Than Ever Before In Gamp's History, Says Gato Johns. That tho business men of Siimptor are enjoy ing h season of unpi ocedniitcd proHpnrity, and that the fall trade In heavier than it has been in years, is evidenced on every side. This condi tion Is dun largely to the activity among mine operators in tho surrounding district. The merchants say that tho local trade has been nothing out of tho ordinary, but that their big orders have oouio from tho uioghborlng mines. Cuto JuIiiim, who runs one of tho big supply Iiuuhuh In the city and makes a specialty of tho mining trade, has this to say regarding tho fall business: "With thn possible exception of the boom days, business this fall is bettor than It has ever been during my residence hero. And I don't believe it was discounted much, If any, by tho period to which I refer. There has boon no groat change as far us the local stluatlnu is con corned. I mean by this that the demand In tho city has not shown any remarkable increase, but it Is tho activity at tho mines is what aocouiitM for the very marked gain In the fall trade. To conviuco you that I am not bunding out hot air, here are my books which show some pretty big orders from milling concerns. I am rilling one order of 0,000, 1 another of $:i,000, another of 1500. not to mention numerous smaller orders. And I do not flatter myself that I am rercelring anything more than my share of the patronage. 1 hear the same reports from my brother dealers. "The only Inference to bo drawn from the situation is that there Is greater general activity throughout the district thau there has ever beou iwioru. iv snows iusi lurre mines are being operated on a larger scale and consequently more supplies are needed." MORNING NOT SOLD BUT DEAL PENDING .1. J. Simmons, ouo of tho owners of the Moruiug mine, passed through the city this moruiug returning from Maker City. Iteganllug the sale of tho Moruiug, reports of whloh have I uen in circulation for some time, while admitting that a deal Is pond ing, to a Mluer represent Ht I ve, Mr. Simmons, said: "Tho Morning is not sold, and 1 am not going to say it is until the papers have beou executed nnil the cash Involved in the transaction has changed hands. Thero is some ground for tho rumors regarding Its sale which have been current for some time, in that there is a deal on, but nothing has been consummated. "In the meantime we are going steadily ahead operating our mill, and we are gutting tatter ore thau ever. GOLD PAN PUNT REMOVED TO TABOR The Uolser-lieudryx compauy, operating the (Sold Pan, started throe learns at work this morning moving the Gold Pan hoisting maolbuery to (ho Tuber fraction. This plaut, as was stated a fow days ago, was found Inadequate, and a now one had to bo ordored. An order for the new hoist has been placed with tho Ilololf Macblurey company. Tho new machinery will buvo it depth capacity of 1,000 feet, with eillolout pumping apparatus, it is probable that some sixty days will bo required to till tho order. Tho Tatar fractlou has been operated hithorto with a whim, but tho needs call for nioro oxteuslvo hoisting apparatus. The shaft la now down over sovonty-Hve feet and the same quality of oro continues. A shipment of two oars, or GOO sacks to the Tacoma smelter was mado today. BUGKHORN GETTING GOOD QUALITY OF ORE Mauager Wright, of tho III lie liird and Huckhoru, had a report from the latter property yoster-Jay, stating that tho face of the crosscut la now In good ore, much bettor than has yet beou ouoouutered at the mine, aud further. It was stated that tuuueli No. 2 aud No. II were also showing a good quality of mllllug ore. Tho Huckhoru adjolus the Blue llird, on which a concentrator is now talug built, and It is owned practically by tne'same people. It has uotxreacbed a stage of develop ment to warrant a mill, but this will probbaly be a consideration iu tho near future. WORK STARTED ON GOLDEN WIZARD MILL. Tho Gulden Wizard people started work today ou the foundation for the new stamp mill to bo erected this winter. The general conat rent Ion work will bo under the charge of Laidlaw & 8t end man. The excavat ing for the foundation has been sublet to G. J. llarklorond who startod a force of men to work today. Dr. L. O. Miller, of Three Hivers, Michigan, is here aud is asslstlug Supreluteudeut McPheo In looking after details. The mllllug machinery has taeu ordered aud Dr. Miller states that the biiilldugs will be gotten under way as soon as possible. YANKEE GIRL SHOWS RICH. A recent assay from the Yankee Girl, owned by S. A. Pelkey, Fred Williamson and Guy Pearson, In the vicinity of Bear Gulch where the Wade and Coamp property is situated, sohwed the remarkable value of 1,043.88. They have three claims ou a wide dyke of porphyry cutting the slate. The assessment work consists of a shaft on tho hanging wall, aud it was' bore that the high values were ! encountered. So little work has been done that it is impossible to dotermino the extent of the rich ore which was struck in the shaft. The dyke Itself carries a width of about nineteen feet. HIGHLAND ORE SHOOT CARRIES GOOD VALUES Frank Sbelton, secretary of the Neil J. Sorensen compauy, who retumed from the Highland yester day afternoon reports over three and a half feet of good milling ore lu the faco of the Glasgow drift. A few daya ago the shoot bad widened to six feet, which width was carried for some ten feet, but the average will fall slightly below this. This shoot has been explored for seveuty-Hve feet and It has been demonstrated to carry tho same good values aa found above lu the Bauuockburu shoot. TAKES A CRAGK AT GUT-RATE BROKERS For some time past the Mining Review and Metallurgist, of Chicago, baa been publishing a page or two of out rate brokers' prloea ou all kind of stocks, with the offer to its readers to try to buy auy of them, ou Instructions. Some people hereabouts have misconstrued this olier. A. W. Irvine wrote to the editor, . A. Taft, regarding the matter and received a letter lu reply, ooutalulug these pat, pertinent remarks. "The whole thlug I am trylug to do is iu line to discredit the min ing out-rate brokers' busluess. We offer, if money is sent, to try aud buy any of the stocks mentioned at tho prices mentioned of tho brokers who advertise them In the dally aud Sunday papers, to test the honesty of the same. Of those who have seut in to try It ou, the cut rate fellows have not been able to show a share of stock so offered over their owu name. "My sympathy is aud always has been against this underhand busluess, as my editorials aud articles will show; but we are uot catering to anyone that does uot appreciate that I it is only by showing up the in justices perpetrated by the out rate brokers that the public will understand that they put Iu any price Id their lists and then say, when a demand la made for the stock certificate, and the money tendered for the same at their advrettsed price, 'We have just sold all of that stock' and 'expect to have more in a few daya. Isn't there some other stock you would like? Hero Is one that la much better. (The Great Ship Building Trust company) a dividend payer from 'way back,' and so on. "The whole object of their advertising Is to get enquiries and in touch with the people who are disposed to buy something,- and possibly sell them some stock that they own, or in companies that they sell for." F. AUGUSTUS HEINZE TELLS OF HIS WORLDLY GOODS F. i Augustus Hoinze, of Butte, Montaua, owns '250,000 acres of British Columbia lands, according to bis sworn tesltmony at Butte recently. Ho was examined In the district court there respecting his holdings, in connection with bis surety on an appeal bond. He had made a list of bis real and personal property, and referred to It in giving his testimony aa to bis holdings. The Items were as follews: Personal notes that the wltuesa con sidered to be good, lujoxcessj of 0220,000; mortgages upon Butte property in excess of 110,000; real estate In Butte of the value of 15,000; from ten to fifteen per cent of the real property held by the Davis eastern Montana, of the. value of about 100,000; 4000 acres of graztig laud, Teton county, of the value of about 87 an acre; 250,000 acres of land lu British Columbia, of the value of about $500,000; mining claims in British Columbia, value $100,000; mine in Jefferson county, $00,000; Arizona Newa group of mines near the Ulnted Verde In Arizona, $75, 000; 2Jv per cent of of the Nipper Cora-Rock Island and Nipper mines: thirty-five per cent of the Basin Reduction company stock; one half interest lu Basin towusite; Interest in Trail townsite in British Columbia; 150,000 shares of the United Copper company common stock (wlhoh Is worth about $100 a share), and 120,00 shares of the preferred stook (on which a dividend of $3 a share was declared Novem ber 2). "Do you own any other property?" asked Attorney Cou F. Kelley, who conducted the examination of Mr. Heiuze. "I do," was the reply, "but this is about all that Icanthiuk of uow." "Have you the deed to the 250,010 acres of laud iu British Columbia?" "It Is hold in trust for me by the railroad company," was the reply, "and under that coudltion no taxes will be paid ou It till 1011. I could get the deed tomorrow If I wished It." "What are your liabilities?" "My persoaul liabilities amount to about $200,000" replied Mr. Helnze.