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TWELVE EEET OF ORE
AT THE BLACK BUT1E
Later information Irani thu Black
liuttn In Fox Vullny, being operated
liy Wheeler & Company, O. O.
Wright local manager, Ih to the
effect tlmt tbo now ruin encountered
has liceti crosscut u distance of twelve
foot, without reaching tliu opposite
wall.
The liiMt report printed In Thu
.Minor a fuw days ago was that thu
vuln had been entered llvu foot.
ThlH nuw vuiu Im almoHt at right
angles to thu main head of thu prop
erty, and high values may ho expected
at thu point of Intersection. Thu
oru Ih in plauu and presents a prom
ising appuiirati(!u, though no assay
valtiuH tiro reported.
LONG CREEK LIGHT
WRECKED BY DYNAMITE
Under a John Day date line, of
thu Hth instant, Tin Spokesman-ltu-view
publishes thu follewing: Thu
newspaper nlllcu of Thu Long Creek
Light, a weekly paper puldlslied at
l.uug ('leek, not fin from heiu, was
it I in (tft wicckcd with dyniiuiilu last
evening. Tint explosive was planed
under the building near thu east end.
The explosion wiim ot teirillle vln
llleiicu, tcariiig'itwav tho entire front
wall, Thu opposite wall was moved
seveiul feet into thu stlcel. Thu
id dim mid i oof inn wiei'ks. The con
tents of (lie liulltliliug ueie hurled in
every direct Inn. I'liu olllcu lltuies
anil typi, are a total loss lintl 'the
pi esses are liadly ilnmagcil.
I'M II or ('im has lieeii outspoken re
cently in ti in tl fin i nit i it it of several
things nf which Im did not nppriixc,
noil tliele is a littler feeling against
him liy a I'i'iliiiti ulenietit in the cum
inllliity. An Invest lun 1 1 till lias l.eeu
stuileil, Dealers III explosives have
lieeu wlictl telalivu to ici'elit pur-clia-ers.
No one was I it jn i i'il . It is not
known wliether pulilli'iitliiu will lie
leslitiied.
Whlldkii Wright's Mclrorlr dreer.
It was wlieu the lloer war hud
brought ilepiesHioii in Loudon lluiiu
clul eiii'les tlnee yeats nun that
Wilght'x iIiiiiiii was scaled. One ot
his Australian minim: eoiupiiules was
(.'like View Consuls, a pioperty willed,
tn li; I nulls' bought for iilinut a thou
siitiil dnllars, was capitalized for
uiiir tliuii a million in slum's, which
wcic uiiitlc uctle in speculation tl tut
liiilsted to diy lkuic. They hud
tnlleu one third of their fiirmer died
pi ice when Wiight, in December,
1IUU, uuilertoiik to stem thu ileuliue
liy piiuihiislug tliem in the market
thiuiigh the l.ouilou uud (ilnlie I'M
iiiiuce coipoiatioii. Thin collapsed
under the stinlti, cmryiiig down with
it the similarly juried and iivit
liniiled nlllllnU'il compuuici and bury
ing thirteen stock echunge tlruis in
tlie ruins. Then followed tluee .veins
of tnlHeiy for thu culprit investiga
tlotiH, exposures and wretched, anx
ious dolayH and evasions, shunned liy
former friends and followed liy tho
curses of tliOHO he had ruined, until
yesterday Whltakcr Wright strod
condemned iih a felon and dropped
deiid under thu sentence K.xaniplo
In alwayH more etilaclous than pre
cept, and there uro promoters and
Htnok jugglers on thin Hide of tho
Atlantic! who may prnllt by a study
of tho closing yeara of thin extraor
dinary career. Now York Herald.
RAIN Of MUDAT HUNTINGTON,
OR IS IT ONLY A PIPE DREAM
A phenomena 'vhlch scorns to puz
zle every one and Ih yet unexplained,
occurred here Tuesday.
A shower of rain came up on the
afternoon, which proved to be not
water but drops of mud. Windows
and sidewalks wero spattered with
mud and the uppeurinco of hats
would lend tho Impression that tho
owners had been standing on their
heads. The fact that trains arriving
from both tho east and west wero
covered with tho substance demon
strates this straiiKu trlek of tho ele
ments Is not entirely local. Various
theories liave beoti advanced as to its
cause, but the prevailing Idea seems
to lie Unit there das been a volcimlo
erupt ion snmiHvliere.
However, thu only thing of this
mil uru known to occur recently, Is
late illspatcheH from Amsterdam Miy
lug that thu Volcano Morapi, In thu
Island of .liivn, is-iu a statu uf erup
tion and loul lug .forth hot coal and
ashes, but we do not profess to be
siillli'lt'iitly advanced 111 the sulcuccs
to judge the feasibility of an expla
nation on this scale.- Huntington
lleiald.
Diamond a Geological Mystery.
The tliiiiiinuil Ih still ouu of thu
mvstcrlcH of geology. When the
South African Ileitis weto discovered
theie was much astonishment to lltnl
the gem in u series of minerals till(e
dlll'eieut fitnii tluise in which it
had liltheito been found in India
anil llni.il, says thu .Mining and Kn
giueeriiig lleview. Iiisteatl of lying
beside" touiiuiiliue, auatese and
liriiokitc, it was mingled with a
lueciiia of miigiieslau inckN wljlch dad
evidently been piisded up from below,
and a gieal variety of mlueials, sued
as iliopubic, mlcu, zircon and enruu
tliuii, weiu embetlileil along witli it.
Some liavu hiippucd that the diauiond
was originally formed where It is
now picked up, and the prcM'iice. of
caibuieteil gas and ctirboniferous
nicks is In fiuor of the idea, but, on
the o her hand, the broken cuiiilltioii
of some of the stone and other facts
go to support the oppoMte opinion.
Timber And HonuitcAd Filings.
TiniWr unit litiiiie"teml IIIIiikn as well
us llinil proofs, can be ininlc befmu
Charles II. Chance, I'liiteil Mutes Com-uiis-iuuer,
ollit'L' in First National Hank
o( Suuiiir building, Sumpter, thu sav
ing applicants expense of a trip to Iji
(Inutile,
OREGON MINES GAINING
SOME RECOGNITION DUE.
Oregon, to whom falls tbo honor
of entertaining the next meeting of
the Natloual Mlulug Congress, has,
by a slow process of years, gained
recognition as a producer of metals
and minerals. Although the discov
ery of gold In Qrcogon dates back to
within two years of (ho stampede to
California in Ml), this staid old
"Webfoot" state has been uealy half
a contury gaining the recognition'!!
might have had many years ago. Out
this recognition hus at last beeu
galued, uud Oregon will, in the fu
ture, hove a prominent place among
tbo gold and copper producing states
of tho uuiou.
Tbo most important gold-producing
sections of Oregon, are, llrst, the
Ulue Mountain, or " Eastern Ore
gon, " district, comprising Baker,
Grant and Union counties; and sec
ond, the Rogue River, or "South
ern Oregon," district, covering Jose
phlno, Jackson and Curry counties.
For tho past seven yeara the gold out
put of Oregon has averaged 80,000,
000 annually. The United States
mint report does not confirm this,
but there are soverul reasons why it
does not. In tho llrst pluco, all of
the placer gold uud it vast quantity
f tho concentrates uud ores are
shipped from tho Oregon mines to
the smelters and mints of -neighboring
states, and tho credit is not
properyly placed.
T!iIh ouput will steadily increase
during thu next few years, as the
genuine development of properties in
bold eastern and southern Oregon
for several sl-iisoiih past Ih just reach
ing a slngu wlieie lesiilts can be ob
tained. Over one-lmlf million dollars were
spent for mining equipment alone in
Oregon tills past year, and it is con
servatively estimated that double
tills amount will be expended for
the siime purpose In liUtl. This
menus that Oregon Ih just entering
lis career as a mining state. Thu
fifty years that have just elapsed
sine gold was llrst discovered In thlH!iViVO-y?WSSi
rutin iiii ii iii-mi iirru 111 ii urii'i;i mi;,
pocket-hunting and surface mining.
The leal win I; is
.Mining World.
now beginning.
JUDGE IIARTMAN. PENDLETON
GIVE MILLION DOLLAR BOND
After consulting with their attor
neys, it has been decided by Judge
(. A. Ilartmau and ,liie II 1'nrke-i to
walvu their pielimluary hearing in
the cases brought against them ami
others by the government, chargiug I
iniiuiiliiiiv tn iliifriiiiil Hie L'fiviirn I
" ' " I ii
incut, and this morning both of thu.v5
gentlemen furnished bonds in tlielJJ
sum uf f'J.OOO each to insiiiu their I w
appearance before the feeilral grand
juiy when it meets in Portland It
is tluiuglit Unit the jury will meet
some time ilutlug the next month.
e ne.M mount. '
at nt wished to'
non a possible. I
.luiluo Ilartmau
Imve Ills lieariiiu as
mil mis ciiiingcii ins mum alter C(iu-'
sulfation wild Ills attorney. He sniil't
ttxhiv: "It I-too iiiucli in asktlie'V)
.iii.l.i ..i. H. ... i.. I. ...... I :
illi-tiii;, if ii ii ') in i Hum mi,, ii 1 1 iii-iu
to conduct ii I icllmlutiry hem lug
.
I will offer u bond instead. It rep
resents about 81,000,000, uud I will
give a mortgage to indemnify my
bondsmen on 000,000 jack lahbit
and all the wild geese that fly over
the laud."
A Business Proposition.
If you are going east a careful se
lection of your route Is essential to
tho eujoymout of your trip. If it is
h business trip time is the main con cen con
siderateon: if a pleasure trip, scen
ery and tho conveniences and com
forts of a modern railroad. Why
not combine ull by using the Illinois
Ceutral, tbo up-to-doto road, run
ning two trains daily from St.
Paul and Minneapolis, and from
Omaha to Chicago. Freo reclining
chair cars, the famous Buffet-Li brary
Smoklng cars, all trains vestibuled.
In short thoroughly modern through
out. All tickets reading via the
Illinois Central will be honored on
theso U trains and no extra fore
charged. Our rates are the same as
those of inferior roads why not got
your money's worth? Write for
full particulars.
I). II. TRUMBULL, Commercial
Agent, Portland, Oregon.
J. C. LINDSBY, T. F. & P. A.,
Portland, Oregon.
PAUL B. THOMPSON, F. & P.
A., Seattle, Washington.
WILLIAM WbLLS ELMER
consultino mininq
cnqincch
Olhce Hold Sumrter, SU.MI'TKR. OREGON
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