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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1904)
-rwi ctt innm THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, February 17, 1904 ALAMO OFFICERS Will Make Investigations With View to De termining Future Policy of The ; Company. ' A parly of Alamo olllrorH and dlroutorH.of Spnkauo, composed of N. . Nuziiin, vice president; .). it. CiibrIii, aocrotiiry mid troiiHiiror; E. 1). Tron I10I in, Hiid M. O. Dunne, directum; arrived this morning mid left Hliortly lifter niion for (lio mine. It Ih probiihlu Unit n foriunl meeting of tlin (llinotorH will I mi hold while tho ollloorH 11 ro there, (o dutildo upon Home chungim mi'd Improvements. "1 inn fmiillliir with (liu niltio mid Itti onoriitloiiH myself," mild Mr. UhhhIii, "and Mr. Troiiholm also Iiiih spout hoiiiii tiiiio tliuro durliiK rocont mouths, lint neither Mr. Nuzum nor Mr. Diinno are ho fHtnllliir with tlin nil no, mid It wua thought liout for ull of 11 h to iiuiku mi Investigation liuforo CABLE COVE HEARD FROM Cable Cove nilno owners and oper ators aru, very much In favor of tho tiuexatlnn project. They point out that iu addition to the advantages al ready miiutlonml, which will accrue from taking this strip of (Irunt county, it will save a world of trouble in the matter of llliug papers on asiHMiHiiiiiiit work, locations and other legal documents, aluce in iu stance of this kind various Cable Cove properties, as well as many others. no vi have to tile In both tlraut and linker count ion. The main properties which are alfected In this way lire the Califor nia, Overland, Imperial, Hod Chief, Alpine, Crown Point, Mormuii Hoy and KHiiieriilda. The fact that they are partly in llaker county mid partly In (Irani makes no end of trouble iu the way mentioned, mid those people are praying that the chuuge may be brought about. KEARNS PROPOSED CHANGE IN EXTRALAFERAL RIGHT LAW. Hy the Kearus amendment to the mining luwa of the United States, now pending hi ouugress, extra lateral rights are abrogated aud the right of the locator to follow his ledge be yond the perpendicular limits of his claim would lie destroyed. It Is unnecessary to discuss the question as to whether or not siiflh a rule would have beeu a good thing if euaoted iu ltitltl, iustead uf tho law which uow prevails. There Is no ab solute guide In such cases. Kvery law Is generally good or bad, accord ing to Its conditions aud environ ment. Wo think that it is uow too VISIT PROPERTY faking up any Dew matters. I am not in a position to stato now just what will lie douo. I do not ho I love in making a bin display over coutem liiatod improvements aud thnu fulling to muko good. When our company (loon anything. I am porfectly willing to giro it to Ihu papers, hut lioforo u matter lit iiIim utoly panned upon, it Ih poor pollc- to ninko n hlnw about it. If tho 1 I.ijh fail to materialize, it liurtH. "Our now ii. Ill is working llko n charm and giving good satisfaction. Wo are goiug over to muko au hives tigatloti to dutoriuiuu our future pol luy, mid may decide upon somo in at torn of change now under advlttmieut, hut it will ho time enough to spoak of these when a decision Ih reached." late In the day to make such a radical change In our mining laws. It Is a fundamental priuoiplo of both government aud jurisprudence, iu relation to property, that where a cortuiu practlco has beeu for a long time legally recognized it 'is not proper to cbaugo it excopt It has boon found to work tho gravest in justice. Iu other words, that In such cases "It is bettor to bear the ills we have rather than to rush to others which wo know not of," That such a change lu our existing mluiug laws would result lu great confusion and endless litlgatiou cannot be denied. No law can Le made, under our constitution, that cau Injuriously atfect rights already vested, for this would be akin to couthcutiou. That the proposed Kearus law could be made to govoru all future locations we, of course, admit. With such a law wo would, however, have one set of locations governed by tho present system alongside of others existlug under the proponed Kearus amend ment The old system, with Hb right to follow the veins Into adjninlug lauds, aud the new Bystoui giving uo right to do any such thing. Such 11 result would, we think, produce ouufuslou, worse coufouuded, that we cannot see how tho results would be beuellclal us a whole. The punsage of such h law would impose 11 uow burden on the mluiug indus try, grievous to be borne, aud would renew au era of mluiug litlgatiou that has now almost burned Itself out for lack of fuel supplied from "unsettled points of law." Paclfio Coast Mluer. BARTHOLF HAS A PIECE OF UTAH RADIUM KOCK. Eugeue Uartbolf has received a sample of the ore recently fouud In Utah, from which the new, rare and most valuable metal, radium has been extracted. Au accouut of this die- oovery was published in The Miner several days since. The specimen was Bent to him by bis sister, who Is postmistress at a town near the de posit. The rock is like ordinary sand stone, through which is scattered thin layers of many colored metalic looking material, nbout the size of a silver dime. It is presumed that it Ih from this substanco tho radium was extracted. ENOUGH PLACERGROUND 10 LAST FIFTY YEARS Jack Hazlewood returned tbia fore noon from the Brown Bear placer diggings, on East Eagle creek, which be and Tom Brown are worknig. He claims to have a great layout there; "enough ground to last us fifty yeats," be says. About that time Clark Bnyde came along and expressed a doubt regard lug tho accuraoy of tho statement. Then Jack substantiated all that he had said by showing about 81. 35 iu coarso gold. Mr. ilazlowood says thoy bavo some wator on tho ground, enough to run n giant a couplo of months In the year, and that their supply is unlim ited. By tho time tho wiisblng sousou opons thoy will havo com pleted tbolr ditches aud flumoa mid expect, to mako n big clcau up this year. CONSERVATIVE" INVESTOR NO LICENSE TO CONDEMN MINING Tho "conservative" investor has absolutely no right or liceuso to con demn the mining Industry as a field for Investment, simply because it pays a much higher rate of interest than bis uarrow prejudice allows blm to think la safe. He baa no ground to stand upon, or can be present an argument which would convince an impartial jury that bis position is a oorreot oue. He can tell you all about the relative values of the dltforent railroads, mortgages, etc., because be baa studied these subjects thoroughly. But be baa passed over mining, with possibly a casual glance, where as If he would give this subject aa much thought and study as be baa the others be would understand it and not condemn It because It pays a higher rate of interest than six per cout. Naturally, be Is the principal loser by adhering to these prejudices, for bo loses many dollars a year In interest. Hut it is to bo regietted that iu this century of oullghteu iiiput thoro a ro so mauy people of In telligence who uio bound hard and fast by a foolish, uujustitlublo preju dice. It is within tho right of everyoue to coudomu a sluglo proposition, if there is reason to doubt its solidity, or tbo iutegrlty of those buck of it; but to coudomu the whole Hold with oue bweeplug stroke because it pays a high rate of interest Is wrong, un just aud unbusinesslike. American Mining News. Comic, and fancy Valentines at the Racket Store. TimWr aiut HosntsUsd FUusgi. Timber and homestead filings, as well as final proofs, can be made before Charles II. Chance, United Statea Com missioner, office in First National Bank of Sumpter building, Sumpter, thus sav ing applicants expense of a trip to La Grande. PLATINUM AT RASTUS Discovery of This Valuable Metal in The New District Reliably Reported. Rock Also Assays High in Gold Values And Much Work Will be Done There. Mining circles in Baker City were startled last night by tho announce ment of the discovery iu paying qunatltiea of that rare metal plat inum lu gold ore In tho Mount Has tus district, the newest camp which has been so much heralded of lute. Mr. E. I). Gallagher, representing u Seattle syndicate, returned here from camp tonight. Mr. Gullnber ha been qulely exploiting some now mineral territory for more than thirty days pai-t, aud bus mndo these valu able discoveries just mentioned, which uro alt tin tod about seven miles from Mount Itustus. Whon interviewed by ii reporter, Mr. Gallagher dis played somo handsome samples of ore which runs from one-half to twelve' ounces in platinum aud from 85 to 8300 In gold. It Is a new character of ore to any thing kuowu lu eastern Oregon. He says that the leads are well defined aud in place. The belt seems at one age to have beeu lu rock form, but has undergone a change and now both the country formation and the ore are soft aud easy to work. On accoutit of this great change in the formation, to the casual observer It does not look like a mineral territory and has been passed over by pros pectors for years; cattle men have ridden over It for thirty-five years, little buspectlng -that there would be discovered beneath their feet the greatest mining camp on the Pacific coast. Mr. Gallagher says that there have already been located eoane 75 or 100 claims In tbla new camp adjoining Mount Raatus and that he looka to see quite a rush there in the spring. He has secured a large number of claims for bis Seattle syndicate and yesterday exhibited assay certificates from a local Baker City assayer made upon the ore be brought iu, showing values lu platinum of from 81 2 to tbo ton to 8230 uud 810 iu gold to 8320. The samples of the ore were taken six feet below the surface aud the claims are situated not fur from the Al Curry uud the Boweu-Small uud Pautlug Mount itustus claims. Mr. Gallagher says that they will push develoi ment work and a tunnel has already I eeu started ou the Seat tle property. Democrat. Listen Lake People. George W. Poague, or Fargo, gen eral manager of the Listen Lake property, who has been here for some time iu connection with the business Interests of bis compauy, left thia afternoon for Fargo, to stop en ruote for a short time In Idaho. Mr. Poague was accompanied by T. U. Tennyson, who is also interesetd in the Listen Lake and has been spend ing some time at the miue.