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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1904)
VOL. V. SUMPTER, OREGON, MAY n, 190.1. NO. 36 RED BOY SOLD FOR $80,000 Synd icate of Stockholders Bid in The Property For Minimum Sum. ' Installed. A few dnyn hud Mr. Kelly 1 wild tlu rook rriithif wiih broken ; which will retard work vninn four jor llr diiyH befoiu the utuv pmtn oiiu hu received. Iteuimllny ore development Mr. I Kt'llv fiild thut now hodlun wuio ibuhiK opened up iiluiiict every day, land that eHeotlvu work Ih huinu pro I ieouted In all iliiwtioiis. A veitlcal j raise Iiiih been Marled from thu'JOOl foot luvul oil the I. X. L. voin, and JU0 fft will bit added to the tdmft ; I iih Iiiih already been stated. The prop ! PORTLAND MAN TRIES TO MIX UP GOLCONDA Wants a Receiver Appointed For The Old Company Orqanlzcd by J. G. English. (Special to Thu Miner.) Tinker City. Miiy 10. At the jmll . clnlenle hold tills nwriiiUK Ht 10 o'clock by Jteeulvcr .lohn Thompson, nil 'he property of (he Hod Hoy Con solldiited (iold MIiich company, con tdstiin.' of the lied liny mid Concord Krotip? of fourteen niineinl claims with the surfiiee eiiuipuieut, IioIhI, twenty-t-tiimp ti ill ".nil nil in i ii i nt; tuuii mid machinery, htnhliH mid live stock. viii t-nlil to ii syndicate of tint stnel:-holder-, lepicrented hy AleMiuiler I'russiiu.', trustee, of Chicago, for the wiim of $80,000. The ptiiohiMt wiim nmdo for the purpoe of protecting their lulercstH mid thu piiymeut of oiitslnndliik obli gations, which will k'uve the piopuity mIhIioiI tlio $80,000 coiiHiHtH of .1. (i. KiikIIhIi, K. .1. tindlroy, .1. A. How. ii rd, Alexiinder PriiHiuu mid thu CIiIoiiko mid Philadelphia gentlemen whom ho reptuKOiittf. Thu Philadul phlii peoplo who blurted out to mlsu money with which lo Huh, the III the eniirlF. iihmidoueil Hint f.ilo urty Iiiih sinkini; iniichliu'.v kihhI for 500 feet. Mr. Kelly tiiyti It. in prob libit) he will mill n cuinpiessiir mid niiichlne drills iiIho Th In matter wlll hu decided upon hid iiiiImi! nt Spokane. The rich shout which wiii recently skimmed iiIiiul'. Mini Ih known to continue for some seventy or oluhty teet will be cro-M'ut to limn the shntt. Here Ih wheie Mich pheuomeuiilly rich ore wim enoiiuntered oni tlmt went up iih hiuli iih $8,000 to $10,000 to tho ton. -V)i, WILL START UP AT THE CLIMAX SOON 1 1 1 1 ii . I mid united their elfoitH with those of .MeHtrii. (iodfiuy, llownrd nod ' I'liisslnn, which Iiiih ti iminiitcd In i 'this Hucci'-st nl proposition to save' the splendid pioperty. Kvery htockholder will ho nlven mi ' opportunity to conio in on thin ground tloor pi Ice of 980,000, uivuu nil the lime he wiiiiIh to pay IiIm pnr Hon of tho nun mid healed with the' utmost fairness mid coiiHlderiitiou. The Illshnp hinthfls, owuels of thu Climax in tlm l'inekcrCrrek,Tillhtiicl, ft n I e tlm. work will be t-turtcd lit thu pioperty in iilmtit ten days. Tliey ciiine in fiom them lodny , ami letiniieid to linker City. They weiu at the mine time or lour day, i Diiriuu thin time thu Mill made hiu , lilt oiiiIh on the hiiiiw. 'I'liem well) live I Tho ineilltorrt will also he peimltlctl' in shape for transfer to u new corpor ation, which will comineiici) opera- In tuko Hlnck for tho amount of their lions after continuation by tho couit nlelit, on tho sumo IiiihIh, but the of the receiver', sale. I money Ih iiiady for them If they pro The above Ih the olllc.liil statement fer It. Stockholder who du not feel no the pioperty when they went up ami let than two now. It Ih only a ipichtlon of a few days till the hiiow will bo piactlcally uono from that M'otlon. jslvi'H to the prcsH by AlexMider Priissitu.', trustee for tho stockhold ers, who furnished thu money with which to buy the mine. Hi) refuses to make nnv further statement, but it Ih learned fiom iiiitu iih authoritative h Miiircu that thu syndicate that fur- cmo to pay their pro rain will Iom) their Htock. There, Ih now not n doubt but. what the mini) will bo opened mid worked on an extensive scale. Tho date for loriiiiulnu opuriitioiiH Iiiih not been tlxed. DREDGE AT 1HE CRANE FLAT PLACERS ,i GOOD RESULTS AT THE BUCKHORN Hon. (Jeoruu J. Ilurrett ant Dr. Steluciiinp, of (intuitu, arrived in town thin afternoon. Mr. linrrott, who witH recently awarded it contract at the lluckhorii, ch.vh he Iiiih it ooil force of men Ht work ntid that devel opment reMiltH are highly siitlsfiio tory. Thu Huukhorn Ih a bister property I.X.L.T0 PUT IN STEAM BATTERY OF STAMPS A. liiiriih.nf lluroh .v. ISurbrldk'i'. Spopkano, came In fiom the Ciiine Flat placer thin moiuiim mid left on. the iitfi'iuoon train for Rpokmie. Thu compnuv Is scttlnu up a dieduu ,, , ,, ..ii x- '' thu flluuinuf: and will bo rundy lred Kully, ...mu.ur of tho IV ox(r lll(.riinllN , llir, . mid luoru A. Curtnr coiihuHIiik , .... IIIIIIU. 1IJIM7 llflllin nil, llllll !,), .-II. . Ilurch hiiyh.hnre been In a terrible II v. but me now inpldly ilryliiK up. euitlueer for tho company, pinned tluoiiKh the city HiIh iifturiioou. Mr. Kelly wiih koIiik to Hpokunu, mid Mr. Carter to linker City. Tho mission of Mr. Kelly to I Spokane Ih to piirohiiHti another bat I tury of iitcmii HtnmpH to replace tho buttery IjolonuiriK to Hiu Now York ta tho Hloe liiril. and Ih controlled by pructlrjlly thu niino people, now bt'lim im'il, mm iiIho a Hlxty-llve Wheeler & Compmiy. of Now York, 'horsiu power enyliio. are Hnancin it and O. C. U'lnht, of! Thin niHchlnery iv to lie Kotten on Suuipter, bua thu nianuKoment of it. tho property uh hooii iih possible and Suit Iiiih been IliHtltuteil, thu papertt luivluK been tiled yttHtiirdiiy, by I.eif 1'ielil iiu'iiltiht the (iolcondii (Jolil Mlnltn; company, iinkiiiK, for an iii'couutlUKi rcHtlttitlnn on hiiIu of thir mint) and the appointment of n re ceiver. Thin Ih the old company, oinni7eil by ,1. (i, KiiuMhIi. It doeri not now own thu properly. Tho. (iiilcoudii (JouHolldateil (lold MIiich company, tho prei-en! owner, together with i-eveinl IiiiIIvIiIiiiiIh, hid iiiiiiIii partkw to tho Milt. .). A. Iiowmd, thu Kuneial in ana Her of thu (lolconiln, did mil know that the nil t hail been Htnilvd until informed hy u Miner repri'Hentatrfo. When told, he m I it: "Well, that fellow Iihh been threateului; t-omelhluu of thu kind , tor montliN pant, but I never tliouh t ho would icallv nlnit proceedlliKH. ( He Ih one of that Piutland outllt thai, tiled to cell (lolconda clock for Mr. I.uuUhIi mid failed. Through hoiiiii hoi I of n ilc n! he n hold of n I IioiihmikI 1 hIiiiich hiiuhelf. "When Mr. KuuIIhIi xolil thu miuo to thu company which now iiwiih it, thoui;h theio wem wiry few hIiiiich that had pacil 1 1 tun IiIh pwiiertthln, thu tiiiui-acliiiu wiih (londucteil In ftilctly I ci-ii I finiii. thu ilecil..,hnvliin been esemited by t lift piupur olllceiH of the company, niter thu ileal, luiil been piopeily inlllled by illiecloiH and HtockhubleiH Thu pioperty wiih hoIiI for $'JOO.O00 and the fuw.huldeiH of hiuall blockn ol Htool, weiu paid their pin lata in ciihIi, twenty ceiitn a fill' re. l.eo Frnlcl wiih leuilered IiIh money. $'J00, aitcorillnK to If Kill leipilieineuth. mid leliind lo accept it. J 1 Ih lue.-cut puipiihC, of ecu l he. Ih to tiy to hiMillate the hiiIu of tho mine. Wo have eoMiulled competent attorneys, who Htate very pnnitively Unit he can't do it. Ho far iih IiIh moMve Ih ooucurned, thu pulillii can form IIh own opliiiou. lie owned ii ouu-lhiiiMiudtli intercHt in thu prop el I y." Thin Hilt, it Ih mid, will in no way lifted the plan n( thu compmiy, in opeulnu up the mine on an exten hive (-cnle anil adilliiK a cyauidu plant. Tony Mohr to Wyoming. Increasing iionana force. Tony Mohr iittuiiii'd thin mornlu' ''') force at thu Honiina in from a trip to bin Whtilt-r cnuuty ' biilnu incieai-ed. Klvu nr hIx nun cnul IIIhIh mill to I'oilluml. flu wiih weiu H-nt out from here today to woik iioro only botwuou tniiiiH. Ilu left, at thu iniiiu. .Junt what Ih beiii thiH iifturiioou on u ton duyH' vlHlt to' done, or to what end thu forco U Wyoming on biisluusH matteia. i hclnu Incniitid Ih not known.