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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1904)
Wednesday, Fehuary j, 1904 THh SUMPTER MINbR IAKC COUNTY'S SALT INDUSTRY EXTENSIVE The Oregon Potash cnmpauy is building a dyke two nitlcH low? across an iinn of Summor liike, lu Lake county, according to the statement made by an exchange. The area of the bay cut off by.tbls dyke ia over two thoueaud acres. An acre of water to an average depth of one foot when evaporated leaves over fifty tons of salt. ThiH Inmieupo vat of two thousand acres will produce over une hundred thousand tons of salt lu h eeasnu. The several salts, sulphate of pot ash, bicarbonate of soda, carbonate of soda, sulphnto of soda, silica, and common table salt are separated from acb other by the process of frac tional crytallzatlou. Tlio bl vat will bo usnd ouly for condeusitiff, and lu it about seven-eighths of the water will he eliminated by evapora tion. Crystal Izl 11s rats will bo built uext summer. John T. Reid, an export chemist and member of the American Insti tute of Mining engineers, will have cbargo of tills part of the work. Mr. Rold is rice prsldent of the Oregon Potash company, and has bnou anno elated with Mr. Sain in the enter prise from tho start. With the com ing of spring similar works will bo built at Lake Albort. Tho one thing that la needed to put tlieao salts uu tho market and .giro employment to hundreds of men iu Lake county Is railroad transpor tation. Tho only product tht can tbo marketed under prcsout conditions is tho bicarbonato of coda, or tho com mon baking soda. Mr. Sain expects to ship a tbousaud tons of this soda next summer and fall. It will be hauled to Dend if ttie railroad Teaches that point, and if not, it will be takon to Madeline. In the manu facture of this soda, common table or stock salt, will bo formed as a by product, enough to supply tho local market. Before the carbonate of soda can be marketed It must be cal cined, and furnaces for this purpose will bo commoucod noxt summer. At the present, Mr. Sain and C. II. Keith, who is assisting him, aie put ting in their time on tho dyke across the Summer lake bay. They have now completed four huudred feet, of the three thousand feet of dyke necessary to separate the bay from the main body of tho lako. MORE TROUBLE FOR WADE AND fIRST NATIONAL BANK Joseph Vey has this morning lllcd a suit iu tho office of tho county clerk for tho recovery of a note for 81 'J, 000 with a mortgage securing it, which ho claims tho First National liauk of Peudletou is withholding from him. The First National Hunk, C. li. Wado aud George Darvcau are named as the defendants lu the suit, and the plaintiff alleges that on April, 18, 1899, he bad a large sum of money ou deposit in the bank, and that ou that date C. II. Wade took 912,000 from the sum and loaned it to George Darveau, takiug from him .a note for the amount with 8 per cent interest, secured by a mortgage on the St. George hotel. The interest on the noto was made payable to C. B. Wade as trustee. It is farther alleged that the de fendant, C. li. Wade, has become in solvent and has absconded from the state, and that the note and the mort gage ara in the hank, which claims to be the owner aud threatens to sue them in tho regular transaction of business as tho property of tho bank. The plaintiff also claims to bo the owner of tho note aud the mortgage securing it, and to be tho beneficiary named aud intended by the term "trustee" iu the papers for tho 812,000. ami that therefore the noto and the mortgago are of right tho property of the plaiutilf Ve.v.imd not of the bank. The plaintiff prays for a temporary Injunction restraining tho batik ftoin disposing of or transferring the unto or the mortgage until atter the final settlement of the suit, aud that Dar veau bo rcstiaiued from paying any money to tho bank until after tho settlement of tho suit. Ho also prays that tho note and mortgage bo sur rendered by tho bank to him. Hal lea ry aud McCnurt are tho attorneys for the plaintiff. Hast Oregouian. OFFICIAL RECORDS. The following instruments were tiled at the linker county court house during tho week ending Feb. 2. IIHM. KKAL KSTATK TUANKKKRS. DKKIIR. .Ian. 20- C. K. Coles aud wifo to Frank L. Moore, 240 acres iu Sec. 112 Tp. 7 It. Ill) E; i'.Wl. Jau. 21 Arnold Myers aud wifo to Harmon Forkius, lota 5 aud tl block ", Haskell adu to linker City; 81,200. Jan. 20 C. E. Fosterling and wifo to L. C. Anderson, homo place iu Wilovalo adu to linker City; 8r.ri0. Jau. 28 A. L. Mason aud wifo to C. C. Cox, lots 2 and :i and south 25 feet of lot 1 aud 00x112 f cot in norboast corner of block A, Place's adu to Maker City; 82,000. Jau. 10 Sloan P. Sbutt aud wife to R. S. Clark, lota 2, .'I and 4 block '.), Suunysldo adu to Sumpter; 81. Nor. 10 V. A. Ushor aud bus baud to T. 11. Bradford, lot :i, Usher's west adu to Richland; 8100. Jan. 22 E. A. Uond and wifo to Steward Sbick, lota 19 to 22 block 23, Wilovalo, UakerCity; 8325. Jau. 27 A. Wallace aud wifo to J. II. Stephens Jr., 100 acres In Sec. 2 aid 3Tp. 11 R. 40 E; 81. Nor. 10 F. T. Gllsau and J. L. Scarff, to John Ketols, Scarff'a home place lu Hanover; 81. Nov. 3 J. II. Murray aud wife to A. J. Murray, 480 acres in Sees. 20 aud 20 Tp. 13 R. 37 E; aud Socs. 10 aud 30 Tp. 13 R. 38 E; aud Sees. 7 and 8 Tp. 14 R. 38 E; 81. Jan. 2 Lee A. Duueau to A. J. liallingall, lots 7 and 8 block X, Haines; 8300. Oct. 28 S. M. Hiiluos to A. J. Ilalliugall, luts li aud 0 block X, Haines: 8100. Jau. 28 Henry Liebo aud wifo to Mary E. King, lots 24 aud 27 block 17, Stewart's 2nd adu to linker City; 840. July 18 V. C. Hrock to North western Granite company, 120 acres lu Sec. 27 Tp. 7 R. 39 E; 8400. Sept. 20 Fred Thompson to Piico Davis, 100 acres iu Sec. 30 Tp. 8 It. 38 E; 8!. MINING MATTERS. I1BKD8. Jan. 28 Henry W. Sbepard to L. F. Hrock, ouo-half interest iu Golden Chariot quartz claim; 81. Jau. 27 J. T. Elloitt to J. W. Meadows, one-half interest iu Caro line, Buffalo aud Victor quartz claims; 8100. Room and board at Sumpter Hotel for 810 per week and up. i ii How to Get Interest If you wish' to deposit money pr a specified time and get interest, bring it to this bank jnd take one of our Time Certificates BANK OF SUMPTER SUMPTER, OREGON l. GOSS, I'rulJrnt nJ Cmhlcr S l8 S. FosnH, At. Cuhlr (tn4r OF SUMPTER Capital Stock Surplus, $1000 $25,000 orriccaa' J. B. STODDARD, President ED. W. MUELLER, - Vlea-Praaldant R.H.MILLER - - CaahUr H. S. 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