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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 11, 1903)
t Wednesday, November n, iqoj THE SUMPTER MINhR TWO ASSAYS FROM CRACKER SUMMIT Average Samples From Lower Drift 60 $39.09, And $50.16. Exceptionally good assays wore received yostorduy from tho Cracker Suiniiiit. Thoy wcro from two nvcriigo samples tuken from tho lower diift, now in over (100 fent,ntid showed respectively 81)0.01) mid 850. 10. This was very much hotter thai) was anticipated from oro at this point, sinco it in not where tho hettcr values were thought to occur. Tho values, however, havo lieeu in creasing right uloug witli continuance of the drift. Much higher thnn theso aro epxected wlieu the richer zone ia encountered. Tho forco which Iiiih hueu sinking nt tho blowout near the end linen of tho proporty wiih recently pulled olf and work Ih now being conceutiated on tho drift. Tho way things aro looking now tho Cracker Summit will hood drop into the producing class. Tho mine is well located, as far as proximity to I)Ik dividend payers is concerned. It adjoins tho North Polo, Columbia, E. and E. and Tabor Fraction, nuioug the woll known Cracker crook producers. T" LOD BUFFALO WILL SOON BE STARTED UP N. Dorkley,, of Pcndlotoi, camo back yesterday from tbo lluffalo mlno, in tbo Maguolln district. Mr. Borkloy has had a bond on this proporty for tho past mouth aud is making arratiKomouts for its operation. Ho has not fully decided whether ho will start this fall, or wait till spring, but rather thinks ho will pursuo tho latter course) iu viow Of the approuchiug bad weather. Tho lluffalo has boon idlo for tbo post two, or' tb'reo yours, owing to tho douth of Mr. Cox, ono of tho mniu owuors. It is au old iutontod prop erty, how over, having produced well in tho past. During its early operntion, boforo tho advent of railroads, tho oro wus packed to Umutillu aud shippod to Sun Francisco for treat ninet. It is Mr. Berkley's plan to open up tho miuo on a big sculo. L4DD METALS COMPANY SNAKE RIVER SMELTEP. . F. Zinus, the Houghton, Micblagu mining man, who is heavily lntoroteed in copper mines in the Snake river couutry, and who la also one of tbo owners of tbo Black Eagle mine in ' Malheur county, is slightly indisposed at tbo Uoiaor Grand botol. Mr. Zlnns recently returned from a visit of inspection to bis Snake river copper property. He biougbt back some magnificent specimens that wero taken from veins which ho is now baviug developed undor con tract. Some of these specimens aro native copper. Regardiug tbo Ladd Metals com pany smelter Mr. Ziuns states that thoy aro busily engaged iu hauling in the lumber with which to com plete tho building. Ore is being hauled from tho Seven Devils couutry to tho smelter, which will be reduced as soon as tho works are iu working order. According to Mr.' Zlnns there is no doubt but this smelter will be a success, as thoy have all the ores and fluxing, material that thoy icqulrc, within easy reach of tho works. Democrat. LEDGE GROSSGUT AT DIXIE EXTENSION. Forty Feel Made and Half of II Will Mill $8 to $10. Charles Thomas, the Kiiirhanks-Mort-e man, aud incidentally the min ing man, returned today from a trip to Dixie Meadows and also tho Dixie Extension, the latter of which he is luerested iu. The Miner printed 11 story a short time ago regarding the big ledge at the Dixie Extension and tho general work going on there. Since Mr. Thomas' last visit the ledgo has been ciosscut showing a width of forty feet, with twenty feet of milling oro which will average between 88 and 810 to tho ton. Ho wears a pleased c.xprcsisou over tho extremely good showing being made at tho proporty. Mr. Thomas states that tho mill at tho Dixie Meadows is Hearing com pletion aud will bo iu operation within the noxt fow wooka. INTEREST IN LISTEN LAKE SOLD YESTERDAY F. O. Huckuum sold yesterday all hia interests in tho Llstou Lake mill ing property in tho MoNamce district to eastern pooplo, thiough J. Win Wilson, general mauager of tho com pany, and Mr. Huckuuin at tho saino tlmo purchased Mr. Wilson's lutorost iu tbo Dead wood group of claims, In tbo Greenhorns, thus becoming tbo solo owner in that property. No consideration Is mentioned iu olthor instance It is understood from Mr. Huck uuin that ho intends gottiug tho Deadwood group in shape for early operation. Looks Like Vein is Near. E. I) ul 7.e, Sr., Hiiperintoueut of tho Littlo Cracker company, operating a group of claims by this name In tho Cracker Creek district, is up from linker City today ou matters relating to tbo company's interests. Ho etutes that several good stringors buvo boon enoountored iu tho crosscut aud that from the formation and tho heavy flow of water bo expects to roach tho velu in a short distance. Eight Inches of Snow on the Summit. Frank Sheltou came in from the Highland mine today. Ho rodo over the fummit, driving two horses ahead of him. Tboro is eight inches of snow above tbo timber Hue and he bad to break the trail. This snow foil last ulgbt aud is still falling today. Everything 1b moving along smoothly at tbo Highland. INDIANA ORE HAS 26 PER CT. COPPER Results ..Obtained From a Lot Sent to Smelter Here To be Sampled. Elmer E. Cleavci, who has been In town for a week past, has dually di vulged the object of his long stay here. He has been having some oro from tho Indiana Copper Mining company's property sampled' at tho smeller, with a view to shipping here. He secured returns yesterday. Tho 010 carries the astonishing values of -11 ' per cent cupper and about (wo dollars iu silver. And yet, Mr. Cleaver declares ho has had a half bundled nfcsiiys, from, this nick and tills is the lowest he 'Iiiih ever re ceived. It frequently went forty per cent copper and occasionally as high us 70 per cent. The Coptic will doubt the statement as he sees If hmo In print, but the ore supplies tho Missouri proof. It carries quanti ties of native copper. This pioperty Is on liig creek, near Medical springs, about twelve miles northeast of linker City. Messrs. Cleaver Hrothers and associates so cured a bond 011 It last .Inly, in terested Indiana capitalists In It and have been at work over since. It was originally known us tho Meyers group, and was owned by W. I. Meyers and A. (1. Simmons. Tho former is now superintendent. Mr. Simmons was tho original discoverer of tho great United Verde, Senator Clark's fifty million dollar mine 111 Arizona. Mr. Cleaver thluks the Indiana company owns ono of the most won derful and valuable copper properties in tho world. Ho says the ledge can bo easily traced across tho full length of four claims: that the outcropplugs indicato a width of from l(i0 to (100 foot. A duoblo compartment shaft has been sunk 011 tho voiu to a depth of sixty-five feet. At tho bottom of this shaft there is three feet of this remarkably rich oro, which is being taken out for shipment. It has widoned with depth. They are now drifting 011 this pay shot, in ordor to begin stoplug. Until yesterday all. tljo stock In tho compaiy"haU'lileii sold in In diana. Then a farmer living near tho property caipo to Sumpter for the express purpose! of' seeing Mr. Cleaver and invested'' '81.000. Messrs. Meyers and Simmons havi y also asked to be given stock at cur rout tales in liquidation of payments still due'. " Machinery font hoisting plant, Iu eluding a forty horse power boiler, has been oidered. The pump bus already been bought iu linker City. Improvements at California. Mauager Hollmun, of tho California, loft this morning for tbo mlue, to bo gono some time, looking . after improvements now undor way. It is thought that tho roaster and cyanldo plant will bo ready In a short time for operation. 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