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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1903)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, December 9, 190 CUSTOM MILLS IN CABLE GOVE A 60 One To Be Located Near The Baby IMee In The Spring. L. (J. LI I ley, superintendent of thn llnliy McKee, wlio In ill ho iu toroatml In'tho building of custom mills in (lio 'Culiio Cuvu district, la in tint oily todiiy, aud states that work will lit) aturtod on ono of those millri in (lio spring beyond any ques tion of iloiilit. Mr. Lllluy hhj'h: "Tlmrn in no question hut that a custom mill will lin liuill near tliu ltitliy Mokoo in tliu spring, ami tlio ninttor of t ho nthora will be deter mined later according to (lit) do nmml. Our iiti)pli) tiro willing to finance, tliu proposition, ami t hoy ant fully oouvlucod that it Ih not only m paying venture to them koIvoh, but that II will lioli greatly In I ho ilovoluvmout of the inlnoriil roauuriMM of thn Cnlilo Corn iliHtrii't. Thn characterizing features of tho dia triol arn largo bodies of oro which according lo thn present trauapurtii tlou nitoH, ami smelter charges it PERMANENT LEVEL IN THE OVERLAND. M. K. Ituln. returned laat night from thn Overland, In the Cable Cove dlat ret, of which property ho ia manager. Hpeakug of the aaaoHainout work now being done on tho Cubic Cove dialrict, Mr. Main any a: "1 do not recall a time when there waa ao much activity, aa for aa tho do ing of assessment work In thia district ia concerned. Locators scorn to tbluk (hat tltoro ia aomtehitig to it, aud thx.HHMiei' to tlnlah tho work be. font tho llrat ot tint year." Mr. Itnlti haa abandoned the abaft on tbn Ovorland.uud will start tho per manent level tbia week. Thia tuuuel will tap the llvo velua of tho prop riety, aud glvo a depth of HOC feet ou the ono farthest away. Ouo of those leaita waa discovered by Mr. llalu ou la ntonut trip. NEW SUPERINTENDENT FOR THE MIDWAY MINE 8. (1. Williama, formerly superin tendent of tho llonanza, but lately connect! with tho (loin, haa been appointed by tho Oeiaor-Houdryx people to aupoicedo Low Walker In the aiiperiutendency of tho will not pay to ship, but which can bo profitably treated on tho grouud, both to the custom mill owner and to tho mlno nporator. Cahlo Cove ban boundlcrs hod Ion of oro, which aro awaitliiK treutmont on tho grouud "Our ponplo aro willing to go ahead with tlio ontcrprlHe, and will coiiHtruct ono mill of 100 tons capa city iu tho aprlng. Others, na tho demand justifies, will follow." Questioned aa to tho recent report, published in Tho Minor aa to rich oro iu tho Lust Chanco shaft, Mr. LI I ley mild: "Tho report waa Minstautlally cor rect. Tho entire abaft ia In vein mutter all highly miuerall7cd and thero Iiiih been moro change in the laat a four feot that thoro waa iu tho paat llfty. Thoro la fourteen feot of vein mutter and neither wall haa been reached. Tho fourteen feet ahowa rich strlngtors averaging from aix iuchea to a foot. Midway. Mr. Walker resigned to take charge of tho dovolopmeut of certain coal dopoalta iu tho John Day! country in which bo la Interested. Ho will leave tbia week with a forco of men to atart operations. Mr. Williama assumed charge nf the Midway yesterday. EASTERN OREGON MINERS AHEAD OF ALL OTHERS C. A. Kohblns, manager of tbe Travellers' (iold Mining company, operating at Atlantic City, Wyom ing, formerly of Kobbiua & Kobbiua, asaayora and metallurgists, Sumpter, arrived here yesterday to engage men to work at bla miuo. Mr. Kobbiua tlnda that the claw of. miners in the section where be Is'operatiug ia uot satisfactory. He says: "It baa been my experience that tho miners of eastern Oregon are tbe best to be found iu the country every thing considered. Tbe sheepberding and cowpuueblug assortment which Wyoming furuisbea Is not in auy de groe satisfactory. My observation baa beeu that a miner, to be a real miner, niuat stick to thia line and not try to shine aa a cowpuueher or a sbeepbordor on tho side. 1 know what tbo eastern Oregon miners are. I know that they pride themselves on tbolr ability and proficiency, and that thoy aro to bo rolled upon for good honest service, which moro than anything else accounta for mv present trip hero. Mr. Robbing states that bla company will install a ten stamp mill on the property in the early spring. The buildings which were consumed by lire soma, time ago have beeb re placed, and everything with 'the ex ception of a shortage of men Is iu good working ordor. The shaft Is now down 200 feet and a crosscut has been started from the bottom. On the first level a big body of ore car rying satisfactory values was opened up recently. He will remain in the city sevreal days. The property ia located in a pro ductive mineral belt, 1.10 miles from the railroad. INTERESTING FIGURES ON SALE OF STAMPS Third Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Edwin C Maddeu, in his annual report, aaya that the reform of the abuses of tbe -second class mailing privilegca Is moving steadily fer: ward, aud can be completed iu two years. Upwarrd of thirty publica tions are 'still' involved iu court proceedings ou the question of second class privileges, aud ou the result of theao cases a great part of tho reform depends. Mr. Maddeu expects court proceedings will bo ended within tlio next few mouth. ami tbo way then oponcd to complete i tbo reforms. . Mr. Maddon recommended that I congress consolidate tbo third and J fourth classes of mail matter aud 11 x i the rate of postage at ouo cent for j oach two ounces or fractiou thereof. I Tbo roport compares tho expendi ture for rural freo deliver aud tho dollcioucy in postal reveuuo for tho last threo lineal years, aud aaya: "The rate of Incieaso iu expendi ture for tbe Introduction aud main tenance of tho rural free delivery waa moro thau 100 per cent per your. I whereaa tho uormal per cent of In ' crease for tho whole servico baa been approximately 1 1 per cout. Hut for thia sudden aud extraoidinary In- crcaao iu expenditure for a practi cally new though necessary branch of tho postal service, tbe deficiency In the postal revenue by tho uatural operatlou .of things under, tbe system of administration now prevailing would have been almost if not en tirely eliminated!" The gross sell lug value of stamped ouvolopes aud newspaper wrappers Issued to postmasters was 918,701, 802, leaviug f 1,070,:70 to derfay tho cost of manufacture aud distribu tion. The total number of pieces of stamped paper issued to postmasters duriug tbe fiscal year was 7,021.902, '700, of 'tbe ralue of 129, Ml, 880, an Increase over tbe previous year of slxteou per cent iu number and Hfteeu per cent in value. To these stamp auppllea should be added 0,829,210 atamp books, the selling price of whiob, over tbe value of the stamps collected thereon, was 198, 202. making th total uumber of pieces of stamped paper aud stamp books issued to postmasters 7,031, 732,0:10, of the value of 39,032,. 070. There were 770,005,950 pos tal cards issued. Mr. Maddeu recommends that congress authorize the postmaster geueral to accept the mailing on large quantities of identical pieces of prluted matter and small articles of merchandise without tbe necessity of attlxlng postage stamps to tbe in dividual pieces. HOIST AT THE MYERS GROUP J. W. Messner, manager of the Prairie Diggings aud also of tbe Myers group, operated by' the Indiana Copper compauy, was ou the train this morning returning from the lat ter, prpperty, ,wherea,000-fqot depth capacity hoist has jnst beeu instal led. Tbe hoist, Mr. Messner states,'' will start operations thia week. Development operations are being steadily proseeated at the Diggings. The mill 1b now Idle, nut It is under stood to be the purpose of the com pany to block out ore tbia winter and start ,tbe 'mitt .op probatly 'in the apring, if not sooner. PENDLETON PEOPLE WIN IMPORTANT SUIT Atoruoya Stillman and Pierce won tboir famous Victoria Island- case. A decision waa banded down yesterday iu tbe courts at Stockton, Cali fornia, to that effect aud Mr. Pierce, who wus thoro at tbo time, immcdla toly tolcgraphed the uowa to Mr. Stillmuu. By tho decision banded down yesterday the Victoria Island property becomes worth half a million dollars or more. Tbo suit was over an island iu tho Sun Joaquin river iu California. The island cnutaiua 7, GOO acres. Tho orlgiual owner garo a mortgago for 830,000 ou this pioporty aud the mortgagee agreed to make certain im provements on tbo propel ty. TbW ho did uot do aud Mr. Pierce aud aaosciatea made tbe Improvements at a cost of several hundred thousand dollars. Tbe bolder of the mortgage at tempted to foieclose aud to offset tbe money claimed under tbe mort gago Mr. Piorce and hla company put iu a bill for the Improvements, which they made aud which should have beeu made by tbe man who owned tbe mortgage. Tbia was what tbe light iu tbo courts waa about, wbother or not this bill for im provements should bo allowed to stand against the original face value of the mortgage, and by tbe decision baudod down in tbe courts yesterday tbe bill waa allowed. Tbe case was a very lengthy one aud closely contested on both sides. Tho auswer filed by tbe defendants, Mr. Pierce and associates, alone contained 120 pages of' typewritten manuscript and it required six weeks of time in which to 'take the test!- Mr. and Mrs. Pierce are now iu California, but will soon return to Pendleton Pendleton Tribnne. It ia reported here that J .11. Fob bins haa been in California looking after thia business, that be has be come interested in and will give bla personal attention to the proposition. HAVE ACQUIRED CANYON MOUNTAIN PROPERTY. John Davles and Charles Stlckney, of Sumpter, have taken a boud on the Canyon Mountain property near Can yon City. The bond is for 15,000 and the property takes in two claims. It ia understood to be their Inten tion to undertake development work at once. i-z?azgxn&rtr,i! itmmm:''ti B5JC&T1 l-"Vn-! i-ji