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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1903)
THE SUMPTER NER Wednesday, Pecembei ), ,190 1 INTERNAL REVENUE : $230,000,000. ThoConiinlssiouer of internal revenue says tlmt tho receipts for the current flwal year from all sources of inter na),, taxation will not be less tbun 2:10.000,000. Thla eHtiniHte, he says In IiIh annual roport to the secretary of the treasury, Is predicted on tho returns of tho llrnt thieo moutliH of the IIhukI period and 011 existing trade conditions. I.mhI year'H receipts were iiiao.Tio.our.. Kor tho uurront fiscal year, yentor- day' treasury statement k!voh tho inte'rnal revenue collections actually covered Into-the treasury hIiico July 1 (o date ii8 100,r.B,m Tho figures tor tho niHanio dato lata year wero e!,IU'-,(i:i:i. Laid year's entire rcccipta wore ahout 1 1,000,000 Iobh than thoMt of tiio IIbciiI year 1!)U2, nwlug to the ropeai of war taxev. Tho iioiiiiuiHiouer HayH IiIh eHtiniato would need to lie revised if Cougrcss should reduce the fix on proof spirits from 11.10 to ninety cotitu or even seventy oonls a gallon, aa many of tho distilleries leuuiiid.lt la ltd loved, "I beieve that the Dixie Meadows I one of-tho coming 'big producers of eastern Oregon. This Is the first mill I have ever built in this part of the state, and I have great faith in the section in general and the Dixie Meadows In paricular. The fact that the property has a vein of. good mill ing ore, averaging between forty and fifty feet, in evidence sufficient of its greatness. "The management has cut an upraise of 140 feet between the mid dle and lower tunnels and every foot of it is in j)6od ore. Tons and tons of oro are blocked out , and a large force is constantly eranlovod dolus d o volopment work. ' ' TO OPERATE CRANE FLATS IN SPRING. PLANT TO OPERATE WITHIN FEW DAYS however, that Congress will not do this, in view of the decreasing customs recoipta and tho present small dellclt in the treasury. Kven it a re duction in the rate on proof spirits should bo ordered, II would probably not become elfectivo before the end of tho present Uscal year. Tho Internal IteVciiuo bureau was concerned largely during tho last year with tho refunds on account of war revenue stamps, aud,with tho admin istratlou of the now oleomargarine law. Tho work of the bureau ia con stantly iurocaslng. One cause of this condition appears in the fact that in 100'.! tho total production of splrltH was i:i'J,Hi:i,H02 gallons, uud In li)U:i, 14H.'JOl,87fi gallons. In round lniiuuorn, iu 100'.! 104, 000,000 gallon of tax paid spirits were withdrawn and in 11)03 114, 000,000 gallons. There has been a largo Increase iu tho production of tobacco and beer. Tho IVorln .dlntilct iu Illinois, which Ih In tho center of the corn belt, and tho lending producer of corn whisky, showed larger receipts from Internal revenue last year tbun any other district In tho United Btatcn. Tho collections were H'.!, li:i.0:i:i. Illinois, therefore, stood llrnt among tho states, with collec tions auiountliiK to 8r(),rili'.!, -, Indiana second, ftUt), IHII.lIlu; New Vork 'third, ?2tl, 7 10,018 and Ken tucky fourth, 2 1, UK. (12(1. DIXIE MEADOWS MILL FINISHED. O. O. Trow bridge, of Hpokaue, who has hadchargo of tho construction of the Dixie Meadows concentrator, left for Spokane this afternoon after having completed tho plant, and Mulshed up everything ready for operation. Tho mill will Ihi started up, Mr. Trowbridge nays, tho middle of next week. It has a capacity of 100 tons and Mr. Trowbridge thinks it is me of tho beat to be fouud iu eastern Oregon, lie has, also, a most favorable impression of the nilue. Speaking of this be said: Tho Snow Creek mill will probably begin oporatlons, it Is stated, within the next week. Evory thing ia iu practical readiness to start aud if nothing unforeseen takes placo the stamps will bo dropping lu u few days. Manager Fred D. Smith has mado an exceptional record iu tho construc tion of this pjaut. Although delayed by tho early auow fall, he has kept things moving and has rapidly rushed tho work to completion. Tho Snow Creek mill lu a modern teu stamp plant, well constructed and will doubtless provido a satisfactory troatmout for tho oros. The property ia regarded as among the coming inluos of tho Greenhorn district. V. V. Elmer, well known la mining circles throughout eastern Oregon, has boon tetaiuod as consulting engineer by tho company. Frank fiurbridge of Burch & Bur bridge, Spokane, who recently made the first payment on the Crane Flat Placers, came in from Granite today on bis way to Baker City. This firm is also opreating the Independ ence in tho Granite district. Work at the placers has been dosed down for the winter, but will be resumed In the spring on an ex tensive scale It is a dredger proposition, and this machinery will bo installod with the opening of the season. During tho firm's bond the ground was thorough'y prospected and its richness decided tho matter of taking it over. 10 DEVELOP THE MICHIGAN GROUP. ERA Of .GREAT WEALTH, .. . HAS COME TO STAY. A Society is fast becoming richer than was foreshadowed iu tho most audacious dreams of the past. Measured by tho standards of today, Croesus was a person of very mod erate fortune; aud tho revenues of kiugs aro of small acouut computed with tho incomes of tho leading capitalists of tho twoutioth century. Thero are somo who think that the production of wealth is abnormal and who aro prediction a return to the old scale of tallies iu tho near future. Thero are, however, no signs of any reduction of energy, any de cline of force, niiy exhaustion either of the genius which creates wealth or of the material out of which wealth Is developed. There are, on the con trary, many' things which indicato that society is iu the early stages of u Wealth-producing period the like of which bu.s noj. occurred before, but lias never beeu anticipated by tho most sangulut).niou of atfairs. Great changes will undoubtedly bo mado la tho mot hods pf distribution of wealth, (Kit '.there will be no diminution iu Its production. His-. tory processes are uow bearing the slow f i ullage, of tlmo in the opening up of tho entire globe, the drawlug together of races iu fiee competition iu the Hold of the world, the dis covery of tho magical pover of co. ojteration aud combination aud their application to commerce aud trade on a great scale, aud, above all, the application of science to business lu all departments, from the uses of chemistry iu manufacturing to the uses of electricity iu swift com munication and conveyance of goods. Hamilton V. Mable. J. M. McPhee, superintendent of the Golden Wizard, is arranging to start work on the Michigan group, ownod by himself and associates, in a few days. Tho group contains three claims and adjoins the Golden Wizard on the east. Only the locati on work so far has been done, but Mr. MoPbee states that ho will undertake ex ton -slvo development of tho property at once. NATURES LABORATORY YIELDING READY MADE ACID. Superintendent Hennessey states this as a fact, relative to the Gold-bug-Grlzzly mine. Ho says there are places under ground where the water which drops down from the ledge matter above will eat a hole In an iron shovel In a few hours. His explanation seems reasonable, and the only one. They have not yet reached hard, solid quartz. At the present depth it la deemposed, so soft that It can bo crushed In one's band. The water, which is always found in ledge matter, percolates through this soft, highly mineralized ore, aud through tho resulting chemical action tho acid is formed. Ho has not had this acid-water aualyzed, to determine its character. Nature's laboratory seems to bo en gaged iu a novel enterprise up at the Goldbug-Grizzly. WILLI M WELLS ELMEK CONSULTING MINING CNOINCCR Oftict Hotel Sumpur. SUMI'TER. OREGON COFORD MeNKILL'S CODE PHILBRICK St FENNER MINING 4 CIVIL ENCINEERS J. S. DEPUTY MINERALSURVEYORS EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS ON MINES NCILL LOO.SUMPTER OREGON. C A. li. 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