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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.
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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.
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Surplus, 51000
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Does a General Banking and Exchange Business
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