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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1904)
COVERS THOROUGHLY THE GOLD FIELDS of the INLAND EMPIRE EASTfcRN INVESTORS IN OREGON MINES Pay for AND READ IT V L & I MILL HAS STARTED WORK Full Twenty Stamps Began Dropping at Mine Today. A report from tint K. and I-. states Unit th full complement of twenty stampH wiih started up toilny. fnr continuous operation. Tho mill tniH recently undergone extoiiHivo ropairn, and everything, it Ih stated, Ih now in xiiipt for constant running. Ah previously announced h 100 ton cyanide plant Ih hIho tu lio in htiilloil. Tim phitiH for this have boon completed anil (ho pielimiuary construction work Is now under way. Iteooutly a sawmill uiih put in just above town to out. tint timber (or tliu lailldliigH. This Ih now in operation, and lutnlier Im being delivered at tho mine (or tho addition. It Ih probable tluit tint plant will lie completed to ward tin uiiilillo of tin summer if nut Mooiier. Tint management of the mine hax lieeu adding ooiihtautly Hh ((iron of inen, ami underground work, it Ih understood, Ih in full mvlng. BALD MOUNTAIN AM) MAMMOTH TO RESUME Deputy Sheriir .lesso Snow came up this morning mid hurried out to the ilald .Mountain and .Miiiiimiith, to post notices adwrtlHlug the Mile of thoco properties, to take place on the prt'iu inert, May -S. Tho Mile of Ih tit tho instance of eastern stockholders, who have ad vanced money (or development ami opeintlng purposes, and Ih friendly to (lie continuing Interests. Those people me liioiply fotcolnsllig tu save theim-elveH. and it in uiidcistnud that both pioporticK will rcMimo M'on after the i-aln Ih pcifccted. It Ih not klliiwu what elfent thin action will have on Muck held by a number uf leeitlcnth ot Sumpter, miiiic of it beiiik' up for collateral on money borrowed. It having been con sidered gllt-cdgcd MCiirlty. No ill formal lou can be M'Ciiied fiiim tho mauauemeut icgatdilig the flltme policy it the companies, though it Ih ctiirently repotted that both mine will coon bo operated again. Until have pindiiced Inilllon, tho .Mammoth mill having been prutltably operated for ataiii t two yeais. SOON 10 START ON THE ALPINE MILL Hick Addoms, spurintondent of ho A I pine, says that work will bo Malted on tho twenty-stump mill to bo elected on tho property tho minute tho snow gets out of tho way. Mr. AddoHis in in town today. Thero ate miiiio seven or eight feet of hiioa' still at tho mine, but tbeno warm (Ih.vh am taking it away rapidly, and he doon not think it will bo Iouk hefore couHtruction work cau he (darted. The machinery Ih on tho ground. Preliminary work wiih started last fall heforo tho early huow caniu. Mr. Addomn has had a full force of mu steadily plugging away at development during the enforced HUHpOIIHloU of uouHtriictloD. HOW THE LARGtST NUGGET CHANCED TO BE FOUND Could even tlction or oast Hide melodrama suggest any Hitiiatlou more romantic.? Figure to yourself, iih tho French nay, four men sinking down exhausted In the arid Autra Han IiiihIi: way hack in tho "Never- Never" country, where rain does not fall for yearn at a Htretuh. and the only plant that forces Its way through the choking sand Ih tho dreaded spiulfox, or AiiHtrallau Hpear grass, whoso points pierce the pedestrian like a lance. They sank down to die, their horses, too, were exhausted, and one of these in stumbling ntiiick Its font against a Himill piece of rock that projected a fow inches out of the nandy noil. The eye of one of Oioho men followed the Htuuible, and the next moment he had struggled to bin feet, HhoiitiiiK. "(iold, Koldl" Sure oiioukIi the mippsoed "rook" Htruck by tho iron-shod hoof glls toned in the pitiless sun, and a mo- moiit later all four men were digging eagerly with bleeding lltiKerii around tho place. AlmoHt in less time than it takes to toll it those unfortunate followH had uueiirthed the largest mans of virgin gold that tho world Iiiih ever soon. Thin Ih known iih tho famous "Welcome Ktriuik'or" minuet. It is of tho ouormiiiiH weight of 10.000 ounces, and every ounce of it virgin gold, thero being practically no alloy whatever. It is in the shape of a rough cross. TIiIh marvelous find acted hh a tonic upon the men and they wore enabled to make their way to tho nearest township, which chanced to bo llallarat. Hero the "Welcome Stranger" was deposited In tho bank, and after It was molted down brought at tho rate of 3'J0 an ounce, so lino wan the iiiailty of the Hold. A full sized model of the "Welcome Stranyer' may bo hooii by American visitorH to Loudon in the Department of Mineral and Precious Stones in tho great Natural History Mm-eum in tho Cromwell road, South Housing ton. Exchange. Rough Float In Placers. Wm. Illackwell and Finnic llrad burn found a beautiful piece of tloat this week ill tho placers they aro working on a Him 1 1 gulch on lloubler crook near here. It is about tho slo of a walnut and contains at lent.) ?IU iu gold. Tho piece is iinlto rougii, showing sharp corners ami has evidently traveled but a short die tance from tho lend from which it was broken. If the boys are siicce-is-fill iu tliidiug where it came from they will surely have a rich thing. (irauito licm. THIEVES STOLE ALL HIS TOOLS L. P. Ostium, who returned from The Dalles a few days ago tu work his Arctic City group near Hanover, was nut at the property yesterday taking preliminary steps towarnd starting operations. Thieves had cleaned out his cabins smooth and hare. The cooking utensils, dishes and bedding ho brought down to Sumpter when he went away last fall, hut tho tools, wheel burrow and other mining Im plements he left, to the extent fo ?:i() or 840 worth, had disappeared. Mr. Ostlund says he has pretty well founded suspicious who the guilty ones aro, and Intends having the matter investigated The snow, he says, is practically gone from the property, ami he will start work in a short time. CORINTHIAN CANAL BEGUN 600 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST "Speaking of canals," said tho engineer who had been talking about Panama, "a very Interesting canal, and one not much heard of, Is that connecting tho gulf of Corinth ami the gulf uf Aegiua iu (i recce. It's some older than any we have iu the western hemisphere also, for Perlau- der, tytaut of Corinth, proposed to cut through the isthmus as long as (100 years before Christ. Superstition stopped him, however. luliiiH Caesar and Caligula took it up again when Home had hold uf (ireece, lint it was too much for them. Then came Nero and he wont at It with vigor, hut tho work stop ped when he died. Others kept pounding away at It for the next t-ev-ernl hundred years, hut It was not until 1HHI that real work of tho Nero energy was put upon it. Then Gen eral Turr, uido-do camp to Victor Emmanuel of Italy, organized a com pany and worked on it till the money gave out In IhilO, tho chief obstacle being some kind of a Hint which dy iiamito couldn't break. "About 910,000,000 was spent up tn 1 800, and thou Mr. Syugios took hold, organized a company with $!Wfi,000 working capital, and tin Idled the job iu It)".'!. It was only four miles long, but it is sixty-nine feet wide at tho bottom and eighty feet at the water line, twenty-six feet an three inches deep in water, and it is cut nearly all tho way through solid rock, rising at somo points to -()! feet above tho canal. It is like a canyon and ships do not take kindly tn It, the entrance being bad, it strong wind blowing through it us through a great alrsbaft, ami there is at times n strong revorse current. It Is an iuteiestiug trip through the canal, ami it saves 1-3 miles of very rough water and twenty hour of time; but so far skippers prefer to go around the peninsula rather than through the canal, though with miiiio changer, which will lie made, it is believed tho canal, as noon as a few ships begin to use it and remove the prejudice now existing against it, will he utilized generally. " Exchange. Private Irrigation Project. Survey for an extensiou of the Milton, Freewater and Hudson Hay ditch started Tuesday about thirteen miles west of Peudletou for the Pine Creek Irrigation company, whose in corporators are Chris Howers and Paine brothers, nil of Walla Walla. The company proposes to cover be- tweeu 0,000 aud 11,000 acres by tho exteusion. The incorporators hold a franchise coverlug the waste waters from (he Milton, Freewater aud Hud sou liny ditch, aud have also the privilege of enlarging the entire length of this ditch to iucreafce t he volume. The incorporators own most of the land to bo covered. The ex tension will follow the hills, forming the south boundary of the Hudson Hay country, aud will be twelve miles long. Its discbarge will be about tivo miles below Touchet, Washington, into the Walla Walla river. Looking Over District. Henry M. Laucaster, mining en gineer uud metallurgist, formeily of British Columbia, arrived iu town this morning to have a look at the Hitiiatlou here. Mr. Laucaster Is ati old frieud of Colonel Topping, who was also formerly located iu Hritlsh Columbia. He will be In the district for several days. I FHPinYMFHT 1RFHPY I i "H.v; ".".""" I fc. L. MAliNllU& LU. S SUMPTER, OREGON j Phone W. P. O. Box X f lMKMtRIWXftatmtMt r. v. diwjuic WATCHMAKER DIAMOND JEWELRY WATCHES SILVERWARE OPTICAL GOODS Granite Street Sumpter, Ore. Furniture f l We have more FUKtNI TURE than Money, if you have more Money than Furniture come to the f f t Case Furniture Co.