Wednesday, January zj k;o4
THh bUMPTER MINhR
RICH ORE
IN PLACE
Shoot at I. X. L Gives tvidence of
Permanence Says One of
The Owners.
Here is Where The $8,000 Ore
Comes from Mill Running
Well.
Charles Doughetry, nuo of the
owners of the I. X. L., mid Fred
Kelly, general manager of tho prop
erty, wore ou tho train this morning,
returning from Ilakor City. Mr.
Kolly wont down several days ago,
Jiud Mr. Dougherty wont down yea
tordny. Probably Mr. Kolly wont
-down to take tho clean up from tho
now mill. Probably ho did not.
On this point his romarka wcio,
"Woll, if I did, I did, uud if I
didn't I didn't ."
Mr. Dougherty reports tho now
rich oro shoot looking bottor than
cvor. When hn left thore was every
evidence, bo aays, that it was in place
and that it would prove u permanent
body. The shoot was nnoountored
on the drift from the 200-foot lovel,
and it was from thin locality that
fluob high values have been reported
reoeutly. It was from this shoot
-that ore going up to $8,000 a ton
was disolosed. Ilotb Superintendent
Kelly and Mr. Dougherty confirm
this statement.
The new mill is going all right
and tho cyanide plant is giving on
tire satisfaction.
LITIGATION OVER
MINING PROPERTY.
Tho caao of J. M. Doylo against
W. C. Correll. came up In Judge
Allen's court this morulng, but was
-continued by stipulation.
Tho action involves a miulug
claim which was purchased by Doyle
from Correll in the Rock Creek dis
trict. It is.alleged that the property
does not contain tho amount of
ground represented, and tho litiga
tion Is baaod ou this allegation.
JOHN DAY GOAL LEAVES
LITTLE ASH WHEN BURNED
A number of residents of this placo
went out to the shaft that is bolng
suuk in proapeottng for coal near
here, and brought In samples of lig
nite on last Sundav. They have
since been trying it in their stoves
and grates and flud that It meets this
praotical test very creditably.
The specimens taken were found
.within a few feet of the surface, and
are consequently too full of moisture
to burn as briskly as desirable. The
samples obtained at a greater depth
are more satisfactory in this respect.
As there are no coal stoves provided
with ventilating and draught grates,
the experiments were hardly fair.
But iu spite of all these drawbacks
tin coal iu quantity bums ullh a
good steady heat, and shows excellent
combustion. A most remarkable fea
ture of the fuel is its almost complete
combustion, burning with almost no
ash.
Postmaster Johnson, who hail ln
bornusly lngired over a sack full, was
very well pleased with bis samples,
having burned them iu a range with
reversible coal and wood grate.
Grant County Nous.
MINING EXCHANGE
FOR NEW YORK.
Will Make Another Effort
After Numerous
failures.
Tho Wall street correspondent of
tho Spokesman lioviow writes that
papor as follews:
This week's announcement of a
now mining exchange for Now Vork
directed attention to tho number of
failures lu this lino. Why Is it?
Ono would think that a largo city
liko New Vork could support two or
three of them, if numbers counted
for anything. Hoston thrives on
copper stocks. Tho Bostonlau
build air caatlea of copper In their
dreams out . of their prospectlvo
proflts in the shares they bought the
day before. An Englishman, In ex
plaining tho timidity of foreigners
to trade in American railroad stocks,
said that tboy thought of things here
as a long way off, fooling that they
could not get iu touch with actual
conditions aud be in a position to
decido upon tho merits of our seenrl
ties as investments, or as spoculatlro
possibilities, for that matter.
Now Yorkers, in a snnso, look upon
moat mining proportios as a long way
off, in liko fashion, aud seem to
want au affidavit with a largo flaring
seal, indicating that everything is all
right. A good reason for this is
that so many attempts havo been
made lu this generation to float miu
lug hubbies here. "Once burnt, al
ways timid," has been an exper
ience whlohjutlueucea many traders
aud others in this community, as
applied to mining investments, al
though it Is curious to observe that
people havo lost ten times as much
in other promotions, Including rail
road investments, during tho last ten
years, as tboy havo In mines.
It is to bo noted that after a long
exhibition of stock markot gyrations
Amalgamated Copper has'como to be
regarded with much favor among
speculative interests. This stock now
stands in much tho same position
that Sugar Refining shares did sev
eral years ago, when fortunes wero
mado or lost within a very short
porlod. The Rockefellers, who con
trol Amalgamated Copper, soem to
have used every effort to make tho
stock popular, and as a IJoatou dis
patch puts It, they oould, if thoy de
sired, have made a fortune oporatiug
iu Amalgamated, rigging the market
to suit their fanuy and catching vic
tims both ways. They aud their
friends, of course, dony that they
have anything to do with Amalga
mated stock, except as Investors.
Wall street doe not share in this
belief.
lu the mutter of mining Imcst
men's, what was said uliov o applied
to tho public at large. Home of the
leading lluanclnl Interests have gone
eueiihlvely Into mines and havo
greatly increased their investments of
this character during the last two
years. Such is true of the Standard
Oil contingent, the Whitney, (lug
geuheim, (iould people and others.
Interest iu mining operations prom
ises to Increase year by year. Per
haps the time Is not far olf when n
mining exchange will prove a specu
latlro attraction and that Hoston
will eeaxe to bo a primary market.
TO ENLARGE STATION
AT BAKER CITY.
Joseph liartou, general freight and
passenger ageut of tho Sumpter Vnl
Joy, was horn today. Mr. llititon
says that extensive improvements of
tho company's station at linker will
bo undertaken about March 1. A
rearrangement of tho S. V. and O. It.
& N. tracks at linker will take placo,
and tho former company will nulurgo
its station by au addition HOx'25 feet.
This will alford extra waiting aud
baggago rooms with more ample oltlco
space.
HARNEY COUNTY WILL PUT
WILD WEST SHOW ON ROAD
The proposal of Mr. Miller, of
Drewsey, to organize a "Wild West
Show" with Haruoy county men aud
material as tho component parts, is
worthy of more tfaau passing atten
tion. It la an Idea that It would be
worth tho whllo of our peoplo to on
courago ana pusn forward to tiio
higbost pnsslblo point of success.
It is well known that from our
ranches, both largo and small, can Ih
gathered a company of men, who, as
typos of the trained aud export
raugomou, could not be beaten. At
home wo are wont, because of famil
iarity, to think llttlo of or entirely
over look tho results that might bo
obtained from this craft in tlio way
of a feature of entertainment.
Together with tho display of agri
cultural and other products, also tho
oudloss variety of strange specimens
pf ancient handwork, of fossil relics,
Mr. Miller's Idea, If thoroughly car
ried out, would lend a strong featuro
to a display which for attract I voness
to those unused to tho distinctive
features of tho bordor countries,
would bo hard to eclipse. ilaruey
County News.
Land Office Will Soon Reopen.
V
Tho La Grando land olllco is fast
assuming a business basis, aud lu a
very few days Unole Sam's real ostate
ottlco will again be lu proper running
uoudltlon, 'The latest acquisition to
the machinery is the arrival of special
agont J. II. Alexander from tho Hose
burg district, who comes here to tako
tho place mado vacant by tho transfer
of McNutt. Mr. Alexander is really
from Minneapolis. He won the dis
tinction of hnviug been the principal
factor lu placing Mayor Ames, tho
municipal boodler, boblud tho bars.
Ho has bad many years of experience
lu tbe government employ, during
which tlmo he has bad much import
ant work intrusted to his care. La
Urande Obsorver. -j
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