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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 2, 1903)
Wednesday, December 2, 190$ THE SUMPTER MINER BARNEY BANATO AFRICAN PLUNGER Started Out as a Mounte bank And Became a Billionaire. shrinkage aud millions raulsbltiR, he lost bia head aud died. Gold rules the world and the owner of a successful gold tuiuo or of shares iu a profitable gold mining company stands the surest show to reach the goal of wealth. Mining aud Engin eering Review. A MAN WITH A MILLION MUCH IN DEMAND EAST. A California agent for au estate that bad about a mllllou dollars to 1 11 vest iu safe, small interest bearing securities, was in New York a few days ago since lookiug for a place to put it. He called on a bmker to assist him, who iu turn wrote to a friend iu Philadelphia about the matter. The New York Commer cial publishes the following as the reply from the Philadelphia gentle man : "Aly Dear JHck: I beg a million pardousl You just rope that Call forniau, aud do it quick! Count bia money. Jirlug hi in right over to Philadelphia on a special train. Pull besaw tho tronianilniifi ilnKllnn In h..ldow l '" curtains. Don't lot values of his stock holdings, aud com- uuy,)0,,y s(!0 hini' or b,m 80 yliodr mltted suloldo. but you. Ulludfold him, if nt'cea- Uarnoy Ilaruato was ouo of tho w,rJr aU(l luon ,"n1 hlmatlh.- rorner atraugest characters ever born. The I r ,Jro1"1 ,,ml Ar0,l Hud vn,,r rt" dato aud placo of his birth, and ' ,s sroil Iu that minute provided ovon tho nuino of his father, Ih not. "'""J t,,nt uo "" ,,(' 'feparatcd' nosltlvolv known, m.l ilm tirxi l.it .if trom the million! Ho ain't safo u .-' ..- 1 !.... I.. K-... euro history is his anncarauco iu In 1805, or thereabouts, it was estimated that Barney Ftarnato, "tho Diamond King" of South Africa, was worth 81,000,000,000, tho first and only mau ever to reach that col loss.nl wealth. From that high point his fortuue rapidly ebbed away, -although when ho died a fow years later, It was said that ho was still worth half a bllllou. The poorest man in tho world, be cause he could uot staud reverses. He lost his head wout crazv wbou South Africa as u inountobnuk. Ho gave opeu-air exhibitions with a trick donkey, and tboatrical perform -nces uudor a teut iu tho diamond 'fields of Africa. Hero he mude h la .start by buying diamonds. Then, in combination with Cecil Rhodes, a mau whose career was fully aa meteoric and spectacular as that of liaruato'a itself, he rapidly rose to 'be ouo of the financial giants of the world. The Barnato-Rbodes partner ship secured the control of the -diamoud fields, but their great leap from obscurity into fame and gigan tic wealth came through gold mining. In 1880 South Africa was flooded with wouderful stories of gold dis coveries iu the VVItwatersrand district in the Transvaal, 300 miles north of Kimberly, the diamoud ceuter. Stories, wlldor even than those of early days iu California, were told and believed. Tho Kimberly diamond miners went crazy over them. Houses and lands were abandoued, claims were forsakeu, ind an lmuiouso stream of fortune seekers poured over the deaert wastes to the Promised Laud. Nine out of ten of theso eagor pros pectors fouud, to their amazement, that they had been forestalled. Barnato aud Rhodes had got in uhead .and had secured two miles or more of the very richest of the famous gold reefs. Theso two men thou began organizing company after company, with capital stock ranging from 8500,000 to 85,000,000, the shares in which wore eagerly picked up Iu the European rlnanoial contors, aud wealth poured In endless streams into tho coffers of all concerned, for the mines produced by the hundreds of rollllous of dollars. Shares began soaring to tho most extravtigaut .heights. Shares worth twenty-five cents today, sold for 82 tomorow; the next day 820, end the following week 850, to 8100, or 8300. Nothing like It was ever known, xoept In the palmy days of the Com stocks here In California, when stocks worth fifty oonta to begin with, shot upwards like a rocket to 81,500 or more, in some Instances in day. Of course, the reaction came, and when Barnato saw the tremendous minuio in iow lorK. Mnruau or Rockefeller may slug him any minute iu the streot aud make off with his roll, Bo sure aud keep him out of the way of Russell Sago and Hetty Or eon wbllo ruahlnng him up to the Twenty-third street ferry. Do you 'need any secret-service men to assure perfect safety? 1 shan't sleep a wink until you land here with him. Why can't you telegraph tho one mlllou on ahead aud bring your Californian along later? You are certainly a And, Jack a man who kuows a man who has in tow a man with scads, these days I Yourswlth more affec tion than evor before, A. J. "P. S. : I forgot to say that the tempor of the Philadelphia public ia such just uow that you couldn't sell gold dollars here for ten cents apiece." APPLICATION FOR LIQUOR LICENSE. Ihi Slate ol Oregon lot of John Birtlttt In llit Coun'v Court ol the Countv of Biker. In the miller of the application lor Lounty Liquor License. To the Hnnonble County tourt of the Count of Biker, State of Oregen: I. John BinUtf, do hereby mike ippllcillon for licence to tell splrltous. milt ind vlnoui liquors for the perlol of three months, f.om January ill to Mirch it. 1004, both dates Inclusive, it whit It known it the IMIf-wiy Home, In Bourne precinct. Biker coun y, Oregon; said Half-way House being sliuited on the county agon roil between the City ot Sumpter and the Town of fliurne, In the Counly of Biker, Stile of Oregon, inJ being sltuiled about half iy between bumpier inJ B urne. Thai there I no mine within one mile of nld Hitf Wiy House. Thitthe signers of litis petition con stitute a majority of the legal voters of bourne pre cinct. JOHN BARTLETT. Sumpter Oregon, November nth, too). We. the undersigned, constituting i milorliy of the lege! voters ol Tlouine precinct In Hiker County, Oregon, do I erebv respectlullv ask that i Liquor license be c inted to John Hirtlelt, of the Halt-Way House, In BoL, ne I'reclnct, Hiker County, Oregon, for the perlol beginning Jinuiry first, ioos, and enJing March list, 1004. J M Doyle, Thos Connolly, J C Burton. W Hanra hin, M S Mctee. O E Bu nett. Al Young, Asa Rob rtson, f obert M Slmms, Thomas Doyle, Thorns Tobln. Ed Haley, B O Kempfu, Ed Turk, A L Mc Hriyer, G H Tibor, Tom Moore, J P Titus, J T Stevenson. Hirtey Smith, Walter Self, Arthur Rees, Fred C Barrett, J T Mahoney. Jake lireen, Ed Mc Klnley, Harry Allen J J (irabb, Tom Jones, R S Jenkins, Tom Bale, Cliff Hackett, Guy Iftirls.Thos Taylor, I Durkee, J B Bill, F M Anderson; Wm H Ernes, J D McDonald, George Maurln, Chas Wil liams, A H Weitherford. J F Rusk, Jis McGhee, W Kellogg, J W Smith, Pest Micey, S A Abel, Clyde Thus, D Jones, Elmer Tiylor, J R More, B Burto i, John While, lien Woods. PHILBRICK & FENNER MINING 4 CIVIL CNCINCCRS J. . DC PUT V MINCRALSURVEYORS EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS ON MINES NULL BLDQ.BUMPTER" OREGON. I I How to Get Interest If you wish lo deposit money for a specified time and get interest, hiiif it to this bank vid take one of our Time Certitieates BANK OF SUMPTER SUMPTER, OREGON A. V. GOSS, I'teslJent ind Cishler SIM S. I'o.Mtw. Assl. Cishler OREGON SMELTING AND REFINING COMPANY J BUYERS OF GOLD, SILVER AND COPPER ORES, CON CENTRATES, PLACER GOLD, BULLION AND AMALGAM Sumpter Oregon VlflfkfAtffAs4f I THE SUMPTER SAMPLING AND TESTING WORKS Phone Main (MM HUMPTKK, OHKGON P. O. box V. McEWEN,i ARTHUR NcEWEN PROPRIETORS Samplers and buyers of Ores and Bullion In any Ouantities. Assaying and Milling Tests. Stamp Mill Concentrators and Cyanide Plant in Con nection. Mail orders promptly attended to. WRITK FOR TKKMK. "''''' His First Complaint "The writer regrets thefnecessity of lodging complaint concerniug voui usual excellent service, but in a friendly, spirit begs to submit the follewing: Yesterday you sold me lower nine, car three, on The Pioneer Limited. But you neglected to advise me that it would be necessary to have the porter waken me in the morning, and as there was so little motiou to the car, I overslept. I have covered a large area on some of the famous trains of the Lnited States and this is the first complaint of this character I have made. I trust you will see to it in the future that passengers are advised." The Pioneer Limited runs daily from St. Paul to Chicago via the Chicago, Milwaukee 8c St. Paul Railway H. S. ROWE General Agent 134 Third St.. Portland, Ore.