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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1904)
"3 7 10 THE SUMPT6R MINER Wednesday, March 2, 1904 FIVE STAMPS ARE DROPPING AT E. & E. Repairs Being Made And full Complement .us i of Twenty Will Soon Be In, ;:; ' Commission. .- Mil 1.. ' ! 1 ! , ' .1 . ., - I . I ' ! '. T. V. Wyntt, hrmhcr of Superin tendent Wyatt, of tin- B. and B., chiih' down from the mine yesterday mid spent h few hours in town. Mr. Waytt says that iiv stamps www put in operation Friday on h continuous run. Preparations r Mint made, hit says, to ntiirt the full complement of twenty stumps lit the earliest dnte possltile. It will rMiiir I'oiisiiler ulile repairing and overhauling how ever, liefnre thin run lie done. To this end h machine shop, iih pre viously hinted in The Miner, 1h lieiiiK Installed, Mini the work will lie cur ried forward In the most expedition luanner. The live stumps, however, will continue to drop. Mr. Wynlt I rbiriku that in the course of a couple ' of mouths the full twenty stamps will be iu commission. The B. and B. 1h eniployiuK R nltf force of men and ltd resumption Id a matter which in Kenerally hailed with deliyht. It la hii old and heavy producer, un fortunately hampered ly litigation Iu the past. Hut now the coast Ib clear and it may hood ho expected to nee the ropeprty Luck in its old class. Since work wsa resumed. some four months hko, there has been a steady advance iu thin direction. DuriiiK this time a lot of ore hast been put in siuht, enough to keep the mill busy for a lotitf time, besides the shipment of the hk'h Krade stuff Iu lare quantities. DEATH OP AN OLD PROSPECTOR the 'vtiratzliiu district, which may In time beuome valuable. Crossed the Isthmus in I 858 and Followed Many ininq Booms. Lou I h Cnlauliitr. the idd mail who left here Saturday siitferluK from an attack of pneumonia to u to the puur farm, dropped dead shortly after IiIh arrival at linker City. He wa taken with a hemorrhage and expired lfort acelxlance could be procured. It is a pathetic iucideut. It Is but another cube of the prospector follow hitf camp aftei camp, makiiiK bit; luouey and liuallv kIiiiIIIIiik oir the mortal coll with practically nothing to his credit. Uolaubar was prestMit at almoxt every initilnc ecltement that oi'i'iined iu the wext. In 1858 lie cnme across the Isthmus, and to California, Later, about IStJ'J, he drlftel into Oregon when the placer stampede to .ubiiru, t'auvou City and other points ua on. He cashed iu for lame amounts, but after the mauiiei of miners ami pruspectois, his sustenance was spent in riotous Uviim, until iu his old sue ami decrepitude he was left practically destitute. It is thnok'ht here that he origin ally came from Uhio or Kentucky, but notlilnn is known concern I n his relative. He ban no kinsmen hi the west. He was also iu the lloise liaslu and Montana duritiK early ex citements, but later drifted back to Kumpter. where he Is well kuowo anion the older miulutt niu. lie owned an iuterest iu a claim iu ! WAS HE EXAMINING BOURNE RAIL ROUTE? lohu T. Donnelly, cashier of the First National bank of Uaker,aud llela Kadish, of the Haker City Samp link' works, after attending the meet Iuk of the O. T. directorn Saturday, went up to the Columbia with Frank llaillle, returuiiiK to linker City yes terday afternoon. It Is noised arouud that Mr. Kadish's mission to llourue was to Inspect the route of the proposed railway between Sumpter and the upper camp, with a view to deter mining touuaKe, feasibility of the route, Ac, ise, also etc., etc. Press Printed Mark Twain's Stuff. Messrs. llaiiKH and ,lohusou of Minneapolis, who hare just pur chased what Is known as the Senator Heitforu printing plant and are pre paring to issue a democratic paper at Moscow, Idaho, have just nmde a sale of a part of the machinery to a news paper man at Troy. The sale was that of one of the first hoe cylinder printing presses ever li'ouuht to the I'auillc coast, iud which was used for many years iu the ottlce of the old ViiKlula City (Nevada) Enterprise, IncludiiK the time when Mink Twain was a reporter and printer on 'hat paper. The old press, which Is still iu k'ootl condition, was used by the Kuterprlse until late iu the 80's. It was then moved to several smaller Nevada towns, and finally about c!(ht years ao was taketi to lloise City and whs used to print the daily Sen tiuel. The press, together with the remaiu.ler of the Seutiuel plant, was taken to Moscow two years ago aud was used iu the publication of au ait ricultural paper for a time. Capital Hotels EUROPEAN PLAN THE WEST THE MARKET AFFORDS OPEN WIGHT AND DAY WO CHINAMEN EMPLOYED Granite Street A. J. DENNY, Praarlatar '! ... . Sumatar, Orn (4T I . ka.-- OF SUMPTER Capital Stock Surplus, 51000 $25;000 ornccaa J.W. SCRIBER . . Praaltfant ED. W. MUELLER, - Vica-Prsint R. H. 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