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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1904)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, January i j, 1900 IO I OREGON SURVEYS The Federal government, through tho reclamation service, has been pur suing Investigations during the pnit seasouas to iSOO.000 acres now value less laud In Umatilla and Morrow counties, In Malheur county Hud In H 11 rimy county. In nil those projootH the Hummer How of the streams had been practically nil appropriated and any further reelamiiliou will lnvolvo the coiiHtrtictlou of more or leas costly dmnH for retaining the Hood wnterH of winter and early spring. An idea of the oohI of those dams Ih litwt illustrated liy the estimates on the big diun propoHed for tho Nica ragua canal. Iuoludlug controlling workH and spillway, thuHo wure for :i. 000,000 to 95,000,000 according to design, the II tut 1 Ht limit lh adopted being for et,&00,000. The host InteieHtH of the country demand, and the reclamation service Itself requires, that the cost of con struction iiiuhI not exceed the value of the outerpriHo when completed." The largest porject under consider- tlou may not exceed 00,000 acres of laud. When the value of such laud, ' with water, but. othorwlHo uuliii- 1 proved, Ih considered, 'it Ih readily ' seen that much Htudy alul the iriOHt thorough Investigation' in required of the reclamation service. The Irriglhln laud, iih well iih all reservoir hHoh and canal linos,, are being gone over and carefully mappiMl, showing all differences , of elevation of at moHt ten feet, and In Home, where the ground la very lint, of iih Utile iih two and one-half feci. TIiIh Ih gcuoially done with .a plane table, an Instrument especially adnpeil to developing tnpngrnhy of largo areas, and' for thin reason not generally used except by the guvciu luent. In very Hat couutrlcH it Ih often wry dilllciilt to see long dis tiiuceH over the sago brush, and illus tratioiiH are hIiowii of luHtrumeut men climbing tops of houses and wind pump towers to obtain clear sights. I'rob.ibly the inont important of all the investigations Ih that to obtain the aiuouut of water available, the dlsclmigo of the varioiiH strcauiH dur ing the dilfereut inoiithH of the yeiir. The aliHiilute necessity for hiicIi in formutioii Ih nicely illustrated by a well known Irrigation system in southern California. A coHtly diim was coiiHtiuctcd, ciiiiiiIh excavated and much money invented In im proving laud and setting fruit trees. The data of stream How, on which t lit h cnlcrpiiso was based, was tho'ight then to have been derived fiom a period of time siittlcicutly ample to just If y couHtructioii. There has been mi water at all In thin loser voir for the punt three yeaiH, and valunlile Improvement, Midi iih orange orchtitilH, have been utteily ruined, probably to the value of sev eral times the. cost of the enterprise in the beginning. AppropriatloiiH by congress in prevloiiH years have not peuuitted measurements In any HtreauiH. Till a Ih now beiitK taken up and pushed vigorously under the funds provided by tho reolHiinitloti act. Kxcept where earlier work has Iweu doue, vutUcieutly reliable data upon which to base estimate can hardly be ex pected with less than two or three years' measurements. The method of obtaining the dis charge of a stream throughout the year is as followH. A gage rod is fixed at some convenient point in the river and an observer employed to read and record the daily varia tions of the water. The amount of water passing at different stages indi cated on the gago rod is determined by the use of a current meter. Ca hloH are erected across the stream, and the bydrographer moves across In a suspended car. holdlug the cur rent meter at various measured posi tions in the water. Tho instrument automatically in dicates the velocity of the water, and from this the discharge is estimated. Some twenty of tbeso stations are bo lug maintained at present. An illus tration is shown of a station across tho Umatilla river near its mouth, with tho bydrographer in the car. John T. Whistler, Kulgucor United Statos (Joological Survey. DEVLOPMENT AT THE GAMP KETTLE Hoy Weuceslaw and Davo (Soodfel low came In this morning from their Camp Kettle clainiH in tho Deer Creek district, whore thoy havo Coon doing development work. Thoy have completed asHesHmout work aud will continue the drift ou tho vein for Home forty or Hfty feet further, they state. The ledgo shows a width of sovou feet, with averago viiIuoh of about pit. The property Ih located near the Golden Wizard. PRACTICAL IDEA OF WHAT A MILLION DOLLARS MEANS A practical Idea of what a million dollni'H mciiiiH wiih given a few days ago, when one of Chicago's big IniiikH moved into Its new building, adjacent to the old one. There wiih a little matter of ei'J.OOO.OOO in cash among the moveable. About half of the ciihIi wiih in gold coin aud the rent In silver ami bank notes. How Hliould the cash be moved? At tlrst thought, one might my put it in HiickH and carry it to the new iitiildiugs. Hut that is not the way the transfer wiih accomplished. Ah the tlrst stop in the removal of cash from the old vaults to the new onos.n tunnel wiih cut connecting the buildings by a pannage fir below the ground surface. Five hundred bank employes, detectives and policemen guarded the operation of removal. The money wiih incased in Iron bound trunks from the moment they left the old viiuIIh until they were deposited in tho new ones. What wiih the weight of all these trunks? The (1.000.000 hi gold i?.r, $10 mid -0 pieces weighed fifteen tons, and the bank notes tilled a huge number of trunks. One million dollars In the form of gold coin would weigh well over two tons. Seattle Times. Shareholders Meeting. Notice is hereby given that there will be it meeting of tho shareholders of the First National Hank, of Sump tor, Tuesday, February 10, 1904, at their banking bouse at 11a. m. It. 11. M1LLKR, Cashier. Dated Jan. 11, 1901. GOLD AND COPPER ORE IN THE GRIZZLY P. D. Healy is In town today and Is exhibiting some excellent looking rook from the Grizzly. It is from what Is called the "small"' vein on that property, though why it is so designated is not apparent, until Mr. Healy explains the situation, for the vein is full eight feet wide. It Is stated that it assays 814.50 in gold and carries four per cent copper, clear acrose the eight feet. Now, as to its being called the small vein, that is merely in comparison with the othor, which is forty feet wide, declares Mr. Ileal", an-l he Is a man whose word Is always worth a premium on its face value lu these parts. The trouble with this Jumbo ledge Is that it hasn't yet been found in place. The work now be ing doue is for tho purpose of locat- lug it aud whou this Is done, tho Grizzly will bo a bonanza. Thero is nothing the matter with' it ns it is, hnvlng eight foot of tweuty dollar rock, lu gold and cop per. CUSTOMS MILLS MEAN MICH FOR THE IMPERIAL. Captain Paul was lu from tho Im perial last night. He says that miuo will resume work as soon as the tltlo is cleared up ou the claims which were jumped a year or so ago, which will not bo a great while uow. Tho Imperial peoplo are very much tntrorostod in tho custom mills which Mr. Li Hey, of tho Ha by McKee, and his Cincinnati associates will erect in tho Cable Cove district this year, as they havo over .'1,000 tons of oro ou the dump that will averago about Hfteep dollars. Last year he put f)00 tons of oightceu dollar rock ou the dump. This Ih oro from which tho high grade Iiiih been sorted for shipment. Anything Iosh than forty dollar values can not be handled at a piollt, owing to transportation charges. When the custom mills go in, oro carrying ten dollars can bo prolltably treated. UNEQUALLED OPPORTUNITY TO SECURE A PIANO FREE. In another column of The Miner is published a most attractive subscrip tion olfer. Arrangements have been mado with The Twice-a-Week Spokes-mau-Hoviow, the most popular family newspaper lu the Northwest, to club with it and permit Minor readers to participate in the contest foi a hand some piano and numerous cash prizes which it olfers. Such an expensive contest call bo conducted only by a paper of largo circulation, ouo that no country paper could afford itself, unaided, to I Inaugurate aud Miner renders are fortunate in securing this opportuu- j ity to participate in this one. I Thiu is no guessing contest, but purely a trial of skill. Head the advertisement; It explains tho sys tem fully, and you will surely try to count the diamonds. More Water at Scandla. W. Wade, superintendent of the Scaudia Tuunel returned last night from the property. 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