THE SUMPTER MINER
Wednesday, November 2, 190
The Sumoter Miner
OFFICIAL PAPER OP THE CITyoF SUMPTKR
PUHLISHSI) IVIRr WIONIADAY hv
J. W CONNELLA
T. O. ('.WYNNE. EDITOR
Entered al ttie piitlulrlce In Sumpler, Oregon, lor
trantmlttlon through tht nulls at tecnnJ clan
palter
SUHiCHIPtlON MAteS
On Year .
all Months
.ft.oo
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ALWAYS IN AltVANCr.
Ami now (bo Amnrclaii Mining
News, Nnw York, Iiiih taken up (bo
tight against (Iid cut-rate mining
Htock brokers, mill HinitoH tbuin hip
mill (by with a (In to column icll
torlal. A gioiil olHirt in hHiig 111111I1) to ro
vivo I hn gold inlnli"; industry in tho
South, iioliilily in .Niirtli C1110II1111 mid
(toorglit. Much money Is being ex
ponded mi printer's ink, with (IiIh
iiiii(ihi) in vlmv. "Carry mo I nick to
Dixie," Mill hit a popular refrain
nrlth I huso who Imvit waudcicd away
from Hint gonial clime Inlo ton foot of
northwestern snow, if these mint horn
Klil minus futti out anew. They
wore tint first worked on tint con
tinent hiiiI I ho government operated a
mint in (ionrgia nearly a century ago.
Tbn iiHtlotiiil organization of (Iran
ttom, whiob inut a day or mo hko In
Rochester, Nttw York, before adjourn
diiid h I c tod I'ortland iih tbu mooting
place ill 1UU1. ThiH whh rMlit into
Portland's bund. The metropolis of
Oregon mn baud In a bunch of farmera
to numb bettor advantage than it
nn 11 mining congress. Home doubts
aw ftntsrtaluod hh to the advisability
of the selection of an agricultural
ntr for (bo mooting of tho Ammor
loan MiiiiiiK cougross, but when it
coiiiim (o tint (Irangers, I'ortland will
do herself proud.
The I1UI10 Statesmen point out
that the Standard Oil in not doing ho
badly. It hint just declared a dlvl
dend of 912 a Mhare, makliiK a total
of 4 1 tar ceut for tho year. The
last dividend in 2 higher than the
one declared at tbu corresponding
period last year, though the total for
the yosr in n niilliou loss than for
1002, when it reached 145,000,000.
Rockefeller manages to make bin
trout work Miiiootbly, oven when
Union do mIow up. Tho dltroronco
iMitwoHii him and Morgan Ih (hat he
doori tint run bin business lo produce
tfiolH Aniu'the Htock market. When
lie goes Into (be market be makes
things bop, but be keeps the business
f (be .Standard right down to first
principles.
The IntorimtH now arrayed against
inch other In an adeuipt to remodel
or repeal (he general laud lawn are
o(ua(ed by Hellish motives; the par
ticipant are financially powerful and
the Hettler Ih going to got the worst
of it. Hboiild Senator Haiisborough
Micceod in withdrawing all timber
lands from entry, and noil the stump
age to (he highest bid lor, the whole
proposition will be plHced ou a job
tiiiiK basis and the "big boys" will
havo ovoiythlng (heir owu way.
There in probably not a saw mill iu
North Dakota, from which etate
llausburough comes, ami it hasu't an
noro of tinilier laud, Hnide from cot
tou'wood atid scrub oak, in all ltd
liroHi (louialn. Wbut la bo buttiug
Into this game for, anyway?
M. K. Haiti, an old newspaper
iiiuu biniHclf, and tborefore knows
what bo Ih talking about, remarked
lo Tho Miner one day last week: "A
man Ih a fool (o own a newspaper,
iinleMH bo has a private a (o Krind."
That wiih (be (ruth ho far iih it wont;
but it didn't go far enough. Tho
man who nwiis a newspaper and
KtIikIh hoiiio one cIho'h ax is an Irro
ducinablo Idiot, and because there are
ho many such in the business Ih (be
reiiHou why Mr. HiiIii'h observation
Ih susceptible of proof.
Lyttou criatod the most article
"easy mark" in literature, IniUche
lleii'rt nor villi tool, (bo priest,
JoHopb. When tho old ocloHlantlcal
Hcheiner wanted any particularly
dirty pleco of work done, ho would
call thlri credulous, ambition-devoured
cburcbmiiii to him, baud
him a few verbal boiKiuuts, pat him
on (bo back and bay: "Joseph, you
will be a IiIhIiop yet." And Joseph
would do IiIh nmntcr'H bidding, not
bavhiK enough navy io reply: "Show
mo," and bo never became u blnhop.
Hero Ih Home readliiK matter that
would excilo little mirprino and no
comment, bad It Drat been publiHbed
in a wcHtoru miuiiiK paper, tboimli it
in (be (ruth and an interesting one.
Hut I IiIh Ih taken (rom tho Now
Vork Hanker:
Many wonder why, whon stocks iu
Koueral are ho dull, that mining
Htockn continue active; when tho
Htock HxchaiiKo Ih IohIuk motioy, the
miuiiiK Htock brokor is Hticceaafully
IiiihIiIiik business. It Ih because lame
and continued dividends command
attention. Mining la now recoguized
as being tho moat profltahlo business
in tho world; it Ih now reduced to a
aclouoo iu which mauy of the bright
est minds aro interested, uoarly all
of tho great fluamiiera have invented,
ami most of their millions were
derived from its legttimalo profits.
The mining dlvidonds reported for
the six months ending June 30tb,
10011, are IH1, 143,951. Industrial
companies, Including the United
States Steel corporation, the Stan
dard Oil company, and mauy others,
doubtless representing a larger cap
italization, report for the same
period, but 100,477,957. More
stringent laws and regulations and
more discreet investors have largely
eliminated unscrupulous promoters'
schemes, and the business Is now
being considered on itamerits.
Here Is a pen picture which a New
Vork correspondent draws of the
erstwhile lord of finance, be who was
hailed by tho uutbiukiug mob as a
creator of Ainorlcau prosperity, J.
Pierpout Morgan, tho grealest confi
dence operator, the most successful
stock (himblerigger of the ago; a
Napoleon of dollars after his
Waterloe:
"There does not appear to bo the
rush of capitalists of high and low
dgeree to see Mr. Morgan that there
was a year or two ago. Two years
ago, when the profits of the first steel
(rust syndicate were rolling up at a
rapid rate it was difficult to get a
view of (he lluaucler. He was gen
erally closeted In his private office,
which is far back atid iu reality iu au
adjoiuign building, not Iu the Mor
gau building at all. Tbou there were
frequently groups of well kuowu mou
iu the outer offices waltiug patiently
for their turns to be ushered iu,
while some who could not get Iu
turned away aud came agaiu. When
1 culled at the Morgau office, one day
the middle of this week I noticed Mr.
Morgan iu the outer office sitting In
a chair which was upually occupied
by one of his as slstauts, gazing ab
stractedly about, and doing nothing.
He was not even signing any docu
menu or reading a newspaper, as ho
used lo do when dlseugaged for a
moment. Ho sat there for quite au
Interval with no callers iu sight.
He speudH much of bis time now iu
the front office, and there is ao
anxiety to keep olf visitors, compared
with that of two years ago."
PASSING OF LOCOMOTIVE
Electric Power Supplanting Steam on
Many Railroad Lines.
Ten or a dozen yearn ago Chief En
giueer Henry, of the Northern Pacific
lailroad, was instructed by tho direc
tors to Investigate the subject of
electricity as n motivo power for rail
roads, with a view to adoptlug It on
that transcontinental line. Ho put
in mouths studying tho matter and
made this repert: "Tho first com
pauy that attempts to operate trains
by electric power will go broke.
Afterwards those that do not adopt
electric power will go broke." It
now Beeius that tho day is rapidly
approaching when electric power will
supplant steam. On this subject the
New Vork Times says:
Au interesting illustration of the
tendeucy which is inducing a gradual
substitution of electricity for steam
in the operation of railroads origi
nally built aud equipped for locomo
tive traction is furnished by the New
Vork Central management, In Its an
nounced plans of electrically
equipping lis suburban branches in
the central and western parts of this
state to save its local traffic, which '
has been heavily cut into by Inde
pendent trolley lines. A section of
the Rome, Watertown & Ogdennburg i
railroad, which has been leased by
the New York Central, is to be equip
ped with electricity as quickly as
possible, and when this is done the
electric cars of the Central system
can be run to and from all polnta
along the southern shore of Lake
Ontario.
The Rochester aud suburban lines
are also to be absorbed. The New
Vork, New Haven A Hartford road is
pursuing the same policy, and al
ready has some 185 miles of electric
road in operation. Tb6 same is true
of mauy important truuk Hues.
The reasons which make it Impos
sible for the locomotive to compete
successfully with tho trolley, iu one
or another form iu intramural traffic
aud a suburban servlce.will gradually
narrow the shpere of its usefulness,
aud it requires no great stretch of
the Imagination to predict that it
will ultimately disappear altogether.
This will be gradual, no doubt, but
it seems to be Inevitable. Its last
useful fuuctiou will be iu drawing
trains over long stretches of country
furulsblug little traffic, but separating
popular aud importaut sections.
The locomotive has performed a
service of incalculable value iu the
world for something over a century,
and may last well into Its second cen
tury of life, but with all its modern
refinements it is at best a crude and
wasteful device and neither crudity
uor wastefulness has a -permanent
place iu (be ecouomies of modern in
dustrial organization.
PRDINANCE NO. 207.
Au ordinance providing for tho re
moval of buow and ice from side
walks. Tho City of Sumpter does ordain as
follews:
Section 1. Tbo tenant or occu
l pant, or any other person having tho
care of a build lug, or of laud border
ing on a street where there Is a side
walk within tho lire limits of the said
city, established by Ordinance No.
190, aud ou Granite street from Mill
street easterly to Columbia street, or
if there is no tenant, occupant or
other person having tho caro of the
whole of such building, or of any
such land, tbo owner thereof shall,
within the first four hours of day
light after tbo ceasing to fall of any
snow, cause the samo (o be lemoved
therefrom, the entire leupth of said
premisos, and for a space tbo cutiro
width of tbo sidewalk.
Sec. '2. Tho provisions of tbo
preceding sectioti shall also apply to
tho falling of snow from any build
ings. Sec. :i. Whenever any portion of
a sidewalk within tho district above
established Is encumbered with ico
the tenant or occupant of a building
or of laud adjoining a street whereon '
is such sidewalk, or in caso there is
no occupant of tho wholo of such
building, or of auy such land, the
owner or other porsou having the care
of tbo same shall cause such sidewalk
to be made safe and convenient by
removing the ice therefrom, or by
covering tho same with saud, ashes,
or some suitable substance within
the first three hours of daylight after
the formation of said Ice.
Sec. 4. Any person violating any
of the provisions of this ordinance
shall be deemed guilty of a misde
meanor, and upon conviction thereof
before the Recorder's court, shall b
punished by a tine of not leas tbau
five dollars nor more than twenty .
dollars, or by Imprisonment not less
than three days nor more than ten
days.
Sec. 5. In case of property
owned by non-residents, or property
of which no agent, occupant, owner,
or person having the charge thereof
can be found, the City Marshal may
cause the sidewalk In front thereof
to be kept clear from snow and ice,
and in a safe and convenient condi
tion during the season of any year
that snow may fall or ice form, the
cost of which shall be paid by war
rant drawn on the street and road re
pair fund. At the end of the season
the marshal or city recorder shall re
port the total coat of keeping said
sidewalk in front of such premises
free from snow and Ice aud in a safe
and convenient condition, to the City
Council, aud tho bame shall be a lien
upon tho pioperty fronting ou such
sidewalk, and shall be collected in
the same manner as lieus for street
improvements are collected in ac
cordance with the provisions of tho
City Charter for the repair and im
provement of streets and sidewalks.
Passed the council this 24th day
of November, 1903.
S S. START, Recorder.
Approved Nov. 24 (h, 1903.
C. H. McCOLLOCH, Mayor.
PHILBRICK & FENNER
MINING 4 CIVIL ENGINEERS
U. . DEPUTY MINERALURVEVOR
EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS
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