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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (May 18, 1904)
Wednesday, May 18, 1904 THh bUMPTER MINbR 60LD TAKEN FROM WATER AND WINDS Catgut Canyon Gold bear ing Trade Winds Will i be Incoroorated. 1 "I bare just seen your dispatch from Shu Frauolsco hi Saturday evenings' Post," wrote Mark, "about gold In solution in Caliatoga Springs, and about tbe proprietor bavtng ex traded 1,000 ounces of gold of tbe utmost fineness from two barrels of water during the past fortnight by a process known only to himself. This will surprise inauy of your readers, but It does uot surprise me, tor I once owned those springs myself. What does surprise me, however, is tbe falling off in richness of tho water. In my time tho yield was 1 a dipperful. I am uot saying UiIh to injure the property in case it sale is contemplated, but iu the Interest of history, it may ho that the hotel proprietor's process is au inferior one. Yes, that may be the fault. Mine was to take my uncle (I bud au extra one at that time, on account of his parents dyitig atid leaving him on my bauds) and II 11 blm up and let bim staud fifteen mniutes to give the water a chance to settle. Well, then 1 inserted bim iu au exhaust receiver, which bad tbe effect of sucklug gold out through his pores. 1 have taken more tbau 811,000 out of that old man in less tbau a day and a half. "I sbold have held onto those springs but for the bwlouss of tbe roads and tbe difficulty of getting the gold to market'. I consider that tbe gold-yielding water is iu muuy re spects remarkable, aud yet uo more remarkable tbe than gold-hearing air of Catgut Canyon, up there toward the bead ot tbe auriferous rauge. This air, or this wind, for It Is a kind of a trade wind whicb blows steadily down through (sixty miles of tbe richest quartz croppings dur ing an hour aud a quarter every day except Sundays, is heavily charged witb exquisitely Hue, Impalpable, gold. Nothing precipitates and solidifies this gold sa readily as contact witb human flesh, bested by passion. Tbe time, that William Abrahams was disappointed iu love, be used to sit out doors when the wiud whb blow ing and come iu again aud begin to sigh, aud I would extract over h dollar aud a half out of every sigh. He sighed right aloug, and tbe time that ilolin Ilarhinsou aud Alxo Nor ton quaireled about Harbinsnu's dog, they stood there sweuriug at each other, and they kuew how, and wbut tbey didn't know about sweariug they couldn't learn from you and me, not by a good deal, aud tit the end of every three or four uiluutes tbey had to stop :ati(i declare a aiviaeuti. in tbey dldu't, their jaws would close up so tbey couldn't get big nine-syllable oues out at all, aud when tbe wiud was doue blowing tbey cleaned up just a little over 31, G )0 apiece. I kuow these facts to be absolutely true, because I got them from a man whose mother I kuew personally. I don't suppose a person could buy the water privilege at Callstoga now Ht 11 uy price, hut several good Idea tions along tin1 course of the Catgut Canyon gold hearing trade winds dig for full'. They tire uning to lie stocked for tht New York market. They will sell, tun; people will eutirni for tlietn as thick as Hancock I veterans In the south." ISiauil Kn . camptneut Iletalil. OPERATIONS AT THE YANKEE GIRL Uuy Piersou, oue of the owners of the Yankee Ulrl, iu tbe dear Uulcb dsitrict, reports that slukiug is being prosecuted now at the rate of oue aud a half feet a sbitt. Mr. Piersou came iu from tbe property today. The shaft Is now dowu about forty feet, and will be sunk to tbe fifty foot level, when crusccuttlng and drifting will be beguu. Tbe telluride continues to occur throughout the porphyry, aud In quantities which will doubtless make tbe property valuable. The water iu tho shuft, which has lately caused some delay, Mr. Piersou says, is now slacking up. WHILE LOOKING FOR LOST MINES NEW ONES ARE FOUND Every once iu n whllo some party starts from every mlniug town iu the state to buut for a lost mine. Some of the lost bnnauazs huvu set men mud. Some have lost tbeir lives on the deserts a,id iu many instances tbey have bankrupted citizens who took stock In tbe stories. However, tbe lost mine has had tbe advantage of bringing out more of the forsakedu districts than any one thing. The old lireyfogle mine, iu tho southern desert, fans sent a hundred souls to tbeir maker, but it ditl result iu the discovery of Rnudshurg, and tbo Yellow Aster mine has taken millions in money from the ground. It was a prospector who was looking for the lost lireyfogle who rau aciou tbe desert mines aud bis knowledge soon became knowu to tbe world, witb tbe result that old mother earth has turned over considerable of her treas ure to tbe world and tbe men who bought out the lucky prospector. Out at Tonopab the discovery came about by Jim llutler looking for a mythical mine, aud wheu he found It he did uot recognize the ground. Judge Hawthorne found oue of the Tonopah mines on utie of bis pilgrim ages out that way, but he lost his bearings aud tbe grouud was never fouud again until tbe lucky day Jim Hutler happeued onto it. Half of tho mines iu Nevada that are uow ou the map were found by someone who whs ou a wild goose chase, led there by sumo story of riches that u prospector bad found aud then lost again. Seveiul purties in this town have takeu stock In Inst mines aud, while tbey have never realized through the ventures, yet they are williug tn try again. Tho old Suowshne.Thnmpsou mine, whicb be told of ou bis death bed. resulted Iu tbe ditcovery of tbe Alpine mines and prospectors are lookiug (for tho old miue to this day, and every season brings in a new property from tbe effect of tbe buut. Tbe case is the same iu every country aud eectiou. It's tbe lost mines that are hriugiug out tbe new ones, aud so long as people believe, there will be new giound found where the old was lost. Carson Appeal. , WORK TO BE RESUMtD ON TIPTON EXTENSION Uavid Kccles, of Ogdcu, president of the Sumptci Valley, accompanied liy his litothei. William Kccles, of Hood Hlver, and il. II. Spence, of Ogdcti, tint li dircctnis in the railroad company, went thrutigh tn Whitney , aud luii'k today on a tour of luspec tlon. 'I lie party Is looking over the! damage done by the Moods, and also' will make au examination iu regard to icsumlug work on the Tipton ex tension. This mutter, Mr. Kccles says, depends ou the condition of tbe grouud. Just as soon us it is sufficiently dry, work will again proceed, and will lie completed, lie-j thinks, within thirty days after a belguniug Is made. Chief Engineer West will be ou in a few days to take charge of operations. When asked alioiit the proposed further extension of the road into the John Day country, Mr. Kccles, said that the matter had uot been defi nitely passed upon. "There are several matters tn be consldred," said he, "before a conclusion Is reached. While there are some things favorlile to milking the ex tension, the project has not assumed filial shape. We may build or we nmy not." The party will go from linker City to Hood liivxr, where the com pany bus exlonslvo suwmilllng inter ests. Here also considerable diimuge was Incurred on account of Hoods. A dam was curried away, losing tho company over a million feet of logs. STILL ANOTHER BUNCH OF CROOKS ARE GATHERED IN According to advices from St. Louis tbe government authorities arc after St. Vralu Le Hleur. who until recently was president of tho Le Sietir Opal Mining company, which is said to to own properties in Lehl county, Idaho,. Le Hleur is charged with baring used the United States mulls for fraudulent purposes, by obtaiuing money under false pre tenses. A warrant has beeu issued for tbe promoter's arrest, and it will probably be In the bauds of (Jul ted Staets Maisball Ileywnnd for service within a few days. Le Sleur is said to be iu Utah. In St. Louis it Is claimed Le Sieur came there for the purpose of promoting au opal mining scheme. A company with 1,000,000 shares of tbe par value uf 81 each was organ ized aud the sale of shares com menced. Or the 1.000,000 shares Le Sieur and A. N. II. Hlrrell, whom ho brought with him to St. Louis, retained 'JOO.OOO each, and Fiscal Agents lioujamlu Wright Sc Company, were given 200,000 Tho remaining 4U0.00O remained iu the treasury. Of this amount lit!, 000 shares have been sold, Members of the company charge that Lit Sieur ban eveu sold more than tho million shares of stock to people outside uf the city. J. 1-'. 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