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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1904)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, February 5, 1904 The Sumpter Miner OfTICIAI. PAWER OF 1HB CITY OF SUMPTER PUUSHEI BVBV WEDNESDAY Mr J, W CONNELLA T. 0. CiWYNNi:. EDITOR - KUr.il wtll. "" """ SUHSCUIHTION KATES On Year... Sl Month I1.00 ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. Kvery iovor of justice, a square dual and a game lighter, hopes that tho moil who entered into a con splrncy to blacken Asa Thompson's reputation and ruin hia political prospects, arrested a few days hIiico at Poudlotuu, will gut tho gair Kood and hind aiirl deep. WI1011 an InvoHtor Hulncrilies for an alleged liiveHtmout publication and directly afterward receives matter pertaining 10 hoiiio mining company lie can put it down (hut llio puhllcu tiiin in ipioHtiou Ih an owned or sub Hldl.ed organ of hoiiio prnmiilion house. I'romotorH got access to our HtiliHcriberH only through the use of our udvortlnslng coIiiiiiiih and thou thoy must attract and interest them. -Daily Mining Hoeord. Ah to a cIuhh of "windbag" puhll catloiiH that protends to Kivo advice to lit readorH aa to how to invest, or how not to invest, in IIiIh or that particular mining Hohomo, tho Mining Itconrd of Denver, says: "Those puhlcations are piiruttltri sapping tint Ufa blood of tho milling iudiiHtry; a dotriment to all Inter ested in that iudiiHtry. Thoy are harmful to mining uomiuiuloH and are 11 groat ilotriiiiout to legitimate and ineritorloiiH publications devoted to tho 111I11I11K industry." Kvery indication now points to a record breaking prosperous year in tho gold HoIiIh of eastern Oregon. Gentlemen now in tho east for tho purpose of laisiiiH money for several propositions hero all report Mattering prospecta of hiicclhs. Home have al ready aui'i'eoded In their elfnrts, while other say there is no doubt about "lumilug" sooner or later. Tho most important of these enter prises, uf which Tho Miner is aware, was a dismal failure in November and December, and so much lias tho eastern money market improved that it was consummated two weeks ago with lltUn illllliMiliy. MluoiulnglstH ussort that the time is not far distant when the term "weather forecast" will lie abolished and for it will bo substituted, "weather statement." Hudluiu and the X-ray are tho. things that will transfer motnorohwy from tho realm of prophesy to that of exact science. A Cambridge university professor has issued a book entitled "Tho Con ditiou of Electricity Through (iasos," in which tho matter is ex plained. Ho says that tho whole business has been reduced to a scion title basis, and that weather reports of tho future will bo thoroiiKhly re liable. If tho uumorou reports of the discovery of radium, coiiiIuk from al most every state in tho Uniou, are to bo credited, it will not bo Iouk boforo all a man will have to do to obtaiu a supply for homo consumption will bo to hie himself to IiIb hack yard and jdlg out a chut k. If folks keep on discovering tho curious metal and simplifying tho process of reduction it will hood lie cheap as Halt. Tho Minor Iiiih not exerted its efforts to locate a supply in these diggings, I hut it uuriiH tho public that if other kBP HPrlwcliiR radium ItlllH'H It will be up to it t I sustain . tho linniir nf thin ureiit mineral Men tion. Tho Mining Investor of Colorado Springs, (piotes a prominent mining oporator of that state, who had re turned from tho cast after consult Iiik with his associates, said to bo Standard Oil people, hh follews: "Within tho next year, wo will see evidences of a pronounced change iu Hontimoiit in Wall atreot direct lug tho metal producing industry. Here tofore mining invostmeuta have boon sneered at by Wall street opertators, but tho developments during 100I1 growing out uf the Industrial trust movement, have persuaded many that a new Held of operations will have to bo looked for. Mining Ih sure to ptollt by thli- earch for InveHtueiit schemes, the n i 10 so since tho men who aro apt ( look iu this direction for opportuiii ies aro of a class to confer honor i pou -juy business iu which they engage. " Legitimate mining papers have given considerable attention of late to fake publications. Mining Woild, one of tiio best published, says: "When you see an advertisement ottering u miulug paper free or for a nominal sum, just make up your mind that it Is hoiiio iid-crtislug dodge by which hoiiio promotion com pany seeks In boost Its own property. It costs money, and Iota of it, to publish 11 mining journal, and thoy are not he In,? sent free to anybody. When you got one of this description carofully look and hog if It has been entered as second-class matter at tho post ollico. If It has not you may know that the postotlico department has net Hh seal of disapproval on tho publication as being iu the interest of some Individual or company When reading mining news you want to read iiupiejiidlccd mid disinter ested reports and this you cannot got from the so-called mining journals which have not been approved of by the post ollico department." Tho Idaho Statesman enters au encomium on tho six college gradu ates employed ut the Snow Creek mine, reference to which was made iu The Miner a few days ago, aud tho Institutions at which they re ceived their training. In part it says : "This speaks well fur tho institiO tious in which they received their tiaiulug. When once not only a college here aud there hut all tho colleges and universities aud also tho public schools tin 11 out pupils that have light Ideas as to tho value aud dignity of baud labor, tho milleuiiiin t draweth nigh. "Nearly all tho great mou, tho really groat men whoso words aud deeds havo pushed humanity to higher levels aud changed tho map of tho world, havo boon mou who were not ashamed of homely labor of the hand. Thoy did ho much of it each dar as a matter of choice aud pleas ure, as a means of putting their bod ies in bitter trim aud adding keen ness aud vigor to their uiluds. The' mnwklab sentimentality of a maudlin society is responsible for tho repug- nance, felt especially by young men a restraint against humau procllvi of educated tastes aud high aspira-1 ties, a protection of society agaiust tious, for all forms of baud labor. A I really healthy mind looks upon a moderate amouut of band labor as a pleasure. It no moro thinks of mak ing a special effort to shun tho fresh air and sunshine. And under proper social conditions and proper ideas no man or woman would lie looked down upon by effete do-nothings, thut 1 are in fact but so many parasites on society, because ho or she labors with tho hand. "Our eductiotial Ideas are far from being perfect, though it is a pleasure to note au advance and for tho better aud in no respect Is this advance moro marked than iu tho growing importance attached to baud culture aa woll as Drain culture, wnicn, under a true system of education, will jog along togetnei.'' Writers on tho labor problem, thoso who have studied the question intelligently and prceuted the result of their enquiry conscientiously, put tho unions in tho samo category with trusts. Tho labor bossos seek to control tho labor market by prevent ing "scabs," men who will not sub mit to their dictation, from securing employment. Tho trust maguate's game is to combine all those engaged in any one lino of business, under liis manipulation. Should any institu tion possess suflicieut Independence to refuse to enter the combination, it is treated as aro the tcahs. Jiolh Meek a monopoly, for tho purpose of practicing extortion on tho public. The latest device is fur employers and employees to unite, ascertain how much their customers, unorgan ized citizens generally, have aud tako it all. In Chicago tho coal dealors and draymen originated this method of robbery, which has extended to tho other trades aud other cities. Iu tho current issue uf McCluro, Roy Stauuard linker tolls iu a most enter taiuiug manner bow theso brigands operate iu San Krauolsco. Thore no man iu any Independent, calling is given u show for hia financial life. Of course, tho -system is bolug car ried too far, aud time will 'rectify the evil, aa it does all others that go to such extremes. Hut it is au in justice to blamo tho labor unions. Thoy wore organized for sorely needed protection aud havo developed Into ougiues of oppression, as all other huuiau institutions do that acquire great power, without respon sibility. They aro ruorely uu exem plification of tho spirit of tho age, a desire to get the best of it, to give our neighbor aud the rest of tho world the worst of it, without regard to equity, in defiance of moral aud civil law. Until within recent years, tills condition of alfairs, so far as compar atively modern times is coti'-erned, has been of slow growth; but during tho past half dozen years it has sprung, apparently, full grown Into a national danger. Its II rat assumed tangible form win when tho New Knglaud manufacturers forced upon our government tho protective taillf policy. Later a few shrewd maulpu- latora peisuaded the government to build aud pay for transcontinental railroads for themselves. Then the financiers worked tho greatest graft of all, iu tho demonetization of silver. This was followed by the so called industrial trusts, and now we are coufrouted with the labor uniou trust. Theso aro the big fish iu the puddle with a myriad uf smaller ones, simllai iu character aud differ ing ouly iu s':e. It is a mauifestatiou of the nature of tho bumau boast let loose, of course, but laws wero luteuded to be Itself, and one ueed not necessarily be a pessimist to believe thai the time has come for government; state or national, to correct these grevioua abuses, or else the days of this re public of ours are numbered. STRANGE HISTORY OF THE FOUNDER OF SMITHSONIAN. In charge uf Professor M.oauder Graham Hell, the body of James Smlthsou, founder of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C in on Its way to New York from Gibral tar. It Is due iu New York about January 'JO. James Smitbson was the natural sou of Hugh, first Duko of Northum berland, aud ElizaLelh, niece of tho Duko of Somerset, a lineal descend ant of Henry VII. He became a wanderer, visited this country, aud when he died at Genoa, Italy, iu 1821), be left bis entire fortune, amountiug to 9500,000, to tho gov ernment of the United States "to fouud at Washington, uuder tho name of the Smithsonian Institution, au establishment for the increase aud diffusion of knowledge among men." It hud been Smithsou's boast that his mure would remain kuowu among men when the titles of Northumber land and Percy who were his an cestors, were extinct and forgotten. SmltliMin's legacy to the Uuited Slates was bi ought to this country by Hlchaid Hush sixty five years ago. The money was brought iu one hun dred aud live bags, each containing one thousand gold sovereigns. As a result ut the investment of that fund there has grown up iu Washington au institution which, iu addition to tho income of 800,000 from Snilthsan'a legacy, expends each year 8400,000. It came to the atteutiou of Pro fessor Alexander Graham Dell about a year ago that Smithsou's body waa about to be disturbed. The cemo tery iu Genoa, where it was burled, was to give way to u marble quarry, and the idea of bringing bis body to America was set forth. The matter was thus brought to the attention of the regents of the Smitbsoniau Insti tution. As a result of tho action taken by the board of regeuts, Prof ef cor Bell sailed for Europe about a mouth ago. He supreiuteuded tho disinterring of Smithsou's body. Exchange. Mining Methods in 1561. A magazine entitled "Out West" has unearthed from some library a copy of a Latin book written iu 1061 by one Agricola, iu which many things learued aud interesting con cerning mineralogy and miulug are set forth, together with numerous very old fasbloued wood cuts. Tho editor undertakes to pralso these fif teenth century miners to the detrac tion of the men who havo made the business of mining famous iu tho present day by their mechanical ap pliances. It may- bo true that tho principles of tho suction rump, tho windlass aud other fundamental inlu Iiik machinery was known iu tho six teenth century, but it is absolutely unfair to det i net from the complete aud especially constructed eugines of today by auy such comparisons, for mecbauical enterprise has made moro progress iu the last ceutury than iu J, 000 years before that day, and miulug machinery has kept pace with the rest, likewise the allied sciences of geology aud mineralogy. Agricola might have been all right in bis day, but he could not hold a miner's can dle to some of our present da? authors aud progress we make in the miulug business. The western editor had better stick to facts and avoid comparisons which do not compare. Mining World. ltwJrtdiEkSlli!(.'