THE SUMPTBR MINER
Wednesday, March 16, 1904
The Sumpter Miner
OFFICIAL I'AW-M OP lilt! CITY OP SIIMPTEP
I'UHIISHI'II BVB6Y WBtJtrSDAV uv
J. W. CONNELLA
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EDITOR
tnlrr6 l ihr pmlnfttcr In Sumpttr. OrfC"". for
'lintmKilcm iluntjgh llir millt kfConJ clit
rutin
lodes, leads bucI :.trHlatoral rights.
There 1h tin doubt about It this time.
Old workings' were found which
doubtless ditto buck to Holomon'n
time, Clt!0intru also la supposed to
tmrc operated tho mines, mid It. In
pmhiiljly here who got tlio colu to
blow heiself when mIiu entertained
Murk Antony.
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SUHtCMII'TION HATBS
ALWAYS II AtlVANi:H.
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WIIII11111 K. Viiniliirhllt says Im ex
lieota to tuiikii 11 iiiiln in thirty
h('niiii!m with IiIh ihiw iiiitoiiioliilu sumo
tlinn tliiHHiiiniiiur. If Will iiim K. Ih
tint careful in IiIh record-breaking
oiiiIiiiivimh, lin will pull nut for (ho
(Irimt. Iloynnd iiuo of those diiyM to
lieat iiny mIiu in thirty mim-ciikIh.
A Commission composed of ropro
tiontHtiviiH from vhtIoiih royul anclotlos
of Kuglmid will hi) headed for Amor
Ich, H111111 In search of rHdliiin. The
Kuropoau mines, it Ih mild, have
Klvon out. It might ho well for
them to Investigate thn Sumpter din
trot. Wn have nil tlio othoi iniiiuriilH,
mill it wouldn't Im much of u trick
to Himro up 11 rHiliuin deposit.
Thoro i'hii hi) no guurauteo girou
cm urn not yet HctiiHlly np6ucd,oxcopt
1111 IkiiiiihI effort In disclose It. Thoro
en 1 1 lit no guarantee glvon hy iiiIiiIuk
tiorporHtioiiH, iixnipt mi honest oirort
to uxponil tlio tii-iiHiiry fund tu thu
liont HilvmitHuii of HhnroholdorH.
DiisIiiohh iiioii ox poet h fulr business
rink mid are willing to take ono in
mining, Thoy iiHk no guarantee
except h fulr run for tholr money.
Dally MlniiiK Record.
Cumuiissluiier White, of tho Colo
ratio bureau of milieu, has Issued his
'wnniiHl'roptirt for IIIO.'I. which ahows
thiit ittatii to have produceil 138,
373,0110 worth of preoloiiH mot In
last year. Thin roport la mado hy
counties, thirty-aix in nuiulior. The
ilrat In the alphabetical lint, Arapa
iline, iiuiduceil ouly f 105 in gold hiiiI
no other iiioIhI. Thu lust on the lint,
Teller, Ih the banner county, pro
iIiioIiik II.H10.272 hi (told Mini
22,237 in silver. The totiil mild
output Ih 21,005,358; silver $7,
(1711,71(1, loud mid zinc ouch nvoi
four uiillliiu mid copper ono million
'(IlllllllH ninth.
It. Ih clniriiclorititlc of uiiuliiu moil,
'specially prospectors, to keep mov
ing along; to join In HtiininodeH; to
believe IIiiiI distant HoIiIh are green
because thoy look ho, A rolling
htono in the mining business gathers
no inure moss tlinn in miy oilier. It
pii.VH to ntiiy with it promising pros
pect, rutlior tlinn to abandon It, In
thu hopo of (hiding ii much hotter
ono. These roiiinrkH tiro culled forth
)iy tho iliHpiiMltlou manifested hore
jiint lit prii'out liy Home to Hiicrillce
nil they tut vo thnl thoy miiy go to the
new iiHinpo In Nevudti, frnui which
otiiiiii glnwl.ig stories of rich HtrikcH
mill fortunes made In ii titty. Those
reports hIiouIiI he discounted.
Solomon's Ophlr oIhIiiih In upper
Kgyt hiivo limit n lioou rediscovered
mid re-located. An Knglish mining
engineer umdo the Iiud,- iiud Iihh
proved tieyuud tiny iueHllou (hut Sol
omon litta Hllowed thu assessment
work to lapse. Jle, therefore, HtHkod
out the iirouuil mid hint tukon posses
sion of it, together with hII dipt,
-spurs, angles, inclinations, apexes,
Amhor Ih ii fossil resin: the jren
ernl f (leu ii rf lo its oriuiti Ih Hint it
wiih ii1 iiud 1 1 mo ii mini or renin from
ii treo rcHomhllnu n modern pine tree,
mid (hut It wiih Hoft 'h i j II ret
formed Ih ileinotiHtiiited hy thu pros
eiiL'u of infects within thu iiiiihh.
It wiih pOHHlhly cliemlciilly chunitRil
hy the ncllon of Hulphuili! imid.
The hunt known Identity for ninlier
Ih iiIoiik tho fen nhoreH of thu tiornmti
mid KuhsIhii prnvlucPH iiIoiik tho
liiiltlo. It Iihh iiIho hoen found oil
the Ilrlt inli Hint coiihI, hii1 In soverHl
pliiceH iiloijtt the New KukIhuiI ccbhI.
SiihiII Hpet'init'iiH lire of little Ttiluo,
hut Ihiko miinHo-.lf clour, lirloR 814 or
81 Ti per pound, A piece which
weighed Hourly twelro poiiudn was
once found on the Scottish coavt by
n llehorniiui.
llrnuilly hiiphMdk, nayn the M lulus
Itoportcr, tin; l.chulcal art are many
year Ijohlnil HcleutlUc knowlo(lo.
It Iihh been nil 'od that it taken about
a uenenitlon nr rcieiitillc facln to
Ket out of the Hclenlillc iiihhi luto
practlciil uhc. Mont of the Iiiuh
which K'vorii electricity and applied
to arta wore known to Karadiiy,
Ilolniholtz, Clark, Maxwell, etc., but
thoHo are only juat lieitiK applied.
For example, tho uiHKUetlc behavior
of mlnerala wan Htuilled and worked
out forty ycani iiko. The Ihwh then
illocovorod aro ouly juat beluK applied
to tho aeparatlon of nrea. Little
that la new haa been discovered in
regard to tho maKuetlc behavior of
miuerala, but only how beat to ap
ply the known lawa to obtain com
tuerulal reaulta.
that it biirua away the foreiitu elem
outH, luaviuK hh a precipitate the
copper In an almost pure state. Hope
of exIiiiKulHhiiiK the flnnicH Iiuh been
practically tibHUdntied, and the ouly
cudoavnr now Ih to keep them from
spread iiiK further. Should they ct
beyond the present contr'd there in
likely to bo a hot time in the city of
llntto.
Men who have been operation in
eMateru Oregon mines for rcvcrnl
yeara pant, those who have had ex
perience elsewhere, any that it ia
more illtticult to secure capital for
development work here than iu auy
camp of their knowledKe. Why this
condition obtains, it would be futile
to dlscsUH. It ia aurely nut liocause
ho haven't a ureal, rich, proven Hold
benriiiK district, one that possesses
all the natural lulvnutHKeu to a re
markable extent. That such in the
case, however, there is no doubt, mid
hccniiho it Ih, eastern Oregon offers
better oppottuulties for investment
tlinn any other inlnlnn roKlun on iho
coiitlueiit, .More can he ncconipllslied
with less iiioiicy; hotter Imruains can
be M'curcd tin uiiiie favorable tonus,
wit Ii Mirer chances of success than
any whole else iu the west, lu one
respect money bears a striking rocoinj
bianco to sheep follows blindly
whole another leads.
.Seuator Doliver, of Iown, in a re
cent address set forth the tJfesliiKH of
poverty like (IiIh: "I'm not uiistlnu
any Hympnthy on the children of the
poor. What little sympathy I have
I will Rive to the children of tho
rich. If you have one hundred thou
sand dollars mid ivo It to a boy to
aturt him out iu life, he doesn't
atart. I siiKKcst keeping that hun
dred thousand mid that boy apart; It
will be hotter for the boy. The
cabin where Abraham Lincoln was
born did not abetter the childhood of
a kluR, but some! hi uh better a man.
Thin ia the real American type, with
Ita background of poverty, discipline
and bard work."
While not new, this la a pretty
sentiment and sounds mighty fine, bt.t
it ia hardly borne out iu fact. That
there are iudvlduals who have tbe
elements to push through pinching
poverty' to success and opulence,
there can bo uo doubt. And ther
are hotter and stronger for the trials
they have endured and the victories
thoy have won. Hut examples of
this kind aro tho exception and not
the rule.
that past customs will not be strictly
adhered to.' ' ' v
Rarely in the history" of'thls r
public has auy Individual who has
planned and tcbemed and plotted for
the presidency reached that Roal.
The people baro seemed to think
that it is so lofty, so honorable, a
position that It Ih rank picMimptiou
to aspire to it, mid have persistently
I limed down all such, notably Clay,
HIaiue and Sherman. Hut I lief e had
long been iu public life mid had
therefore necessarily made powerful
foes, who tiided mid led the people
In accomplishing their defeat. This,
however, is not the chso with Hearst:
though he has made hitter enemies
in the business world, thruugb his
persistent, constant opposition to
trusts and other forms of predutory
wealth. He will be opposed by tbe
same elements that fought and de
feated liryan, but will doubtless se
cure tbe support of organized
labor, which Uryan did not have.
It Is estimated bv expertn (hut
when thu II res which have been raging
for yearn iu the big initios under the
llutto hill have burned out, there will
bo millions of dollars In pure cupper
left behind. Fourteen years ago n
cureless miner left a candle burning
to a piece of timber lu the lower
workings of the St. Lawrence mine.
From this tho tire started ami has
boon feeding ou tbe sulphur in the
ore evei since. Thousau.la of dol
lars have been expended to extinguish
It. but to no purpose. It still rages.
It in, in etfect, an underground smel
ter, tbe beat of which la bo J intense
The largest total of exports in the
history of tho country for a similar
period was reached for the seven
mouths which ended January 31, says
a Waabingtou report. For tbe month
of Jauuary alone tboy were 838,213,
IMS, while the bigneat January re
cord ou any former occasions was for
1000, when tbey reached 135,580,
040. The largest Increase was in
manufactured copper, of wbiob tbe
exporta in tbe seven -months, ending
with Jauuary, 1001, are reported at
31,552.57, against 22,514,843
fur tbe corresponding mouths last
year. Holloed mineral oil ia next
iu the list of manufactured articlea
showing an increase iu export values,
belug for tbe seven mouths ending
with January, 1904, $4'.029,4G1
against 135,324,700 In the cor
responding mouths of last year. Irou
aud steel ataud next lu the list of
manufactured articles showing au In
crease lu exports. Tho total value
of Iron mid steel exported iu the
seven mouths etidinlg Jauuary, 1004,
In ?30, 125,780, against 355,007, !M2
lu thu corresponding mouths ending
with January, 1003. For January
alone the exnorta of irou mid steel
aru 88,117,738. Agrlcltitiiral Im
plements also show au increase in ex
ports amounting to a lit t lo over
32,000,000 iu the seven months end
ing with January, 1004.
No longer cau ono doubt that
Hearst in going to bo an important
factor lu tho democratic national con
vent inn; eveii if he Joes not secure
the presidential nomination. Ho
bun for months past been systemati
cally working to that end aud al
ready in seeu some successful results
of that work. He is said to have
captured tbe party machine of Keu
tucky aud Rhode Island has in
structed ita delegates for bim. All
precedent is against his methods,
aud that ia a heavy handicap, though
tbe democratic party la at preseut
iu such a disorganized, demoralized
couditiou that it la not improbable
The New York Sun estimates that
the total world production of dia
monds up to date approximates 85,
000,000 carats. As we are not in the
habit of weighing our diamonds by
tho ton, we are in some doubt con
cerning tbe proper system of compu
tation, whether troy or avoirdupois,
loug tun ur short ton. According to
tho system used by those who do
weigh their diamonds iu ton quanti
ties, the result would bo in the
neighborhood of twenty or twenty
live tons of sparklers now appearing
as factors iu tho joys and the miser
ies of a world which has substituted
diamonds fur tbe beads aud tbe wam
pum of its ancestors. Tbe regions
contributing to this supply and the
percentage of tholr contrlubtion ap
pear as follews: South Africa 81.5
per ceut; Brazil, 18 per cent, and
tbe remaining G per cent dividend
among Borneo, India, New South
Wales and British Guiana, with
North America and Russia supplying
specimens. Tbe last two of .these
countries have furnished just about
enough to equip an opera box for a
single evening. The deep obligation
of society to South Africa is fully
apparent. The price of diamond
haa been heavily advanced durlug the
last year or two; but It is simply ap-
phlllng to tblnk what tbe price would
have beeu without tbe South African
supply. Society American, Eugliab
aud continental, should daily thank
beaveu for Kimberley aud Jagersfou
teiu. We are unable to give tbo
cubic measurement of tho total col
lection, about so far as weight is con
cerned it would muko a load for a
medium sized freight cur.
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