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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1904)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, May 25, 1904 FAVORABLE NEWS FROM BLACK BUTTE PLACERS Big Proposition Being Operated in Connection With 1 he Gompanys Quartz Holdings. 0. (.!. Wright, mamiKcr of the Black Butte, returned Iiint niht from it uliiy it several days nt this properly, looking nftcr tliu company's pi 11 cor inti'icsts imiitily. The Black J tu tt o company Iiiih 11 Uu placer proposition adjoining Mh (iinrtx ImliliiiKH. iiikI lyin between Murk Butte itiid I'liiHt creeks, immediately nnrtli. Piping, Mauauer Wright says, hi in full swing. 11 f Kiit anil (lllV HlliftH being worked mid II gOOl! llleilll lip OKptmtcd. A 1,,'tOO foill tli(M! Ih now ready In clean tip, lint will probably ml lio touched until tho supply of water llCgillH to ll'HHMI. Mid way lint woiwi those two decks, which now fti 111 IhIi tin water, Ih ii alight hogback ami it Ih tlio purpose! of Manager Wright to open up u tied nick nice in tlin center nt (IiIh mill pipe finin tlio adjacent wafer houicch. Work Iiiih already been Htarted on tlio Inwor end of (IiIh pro poHod nice. The ground Iiiih been prospected, Mr. Wright Hays, JIOll by. i.nmi icei, wnn gnnii pay lor iiiih out lie men. One pun yielded thirty !oiiIh, 11 day or ho lielnie he an i veil at the property. bILLS AND LIENS ; WILL SOON BE PAID Mayor McCidlncn ictiiiucd last (veiling hum the Bed liny district, whore he wont to mcasuic the work done on claiuiH there owned hy the United Ivsploiiitloii company, which in operating now all nt W, I), Hurd's propel hoc. Ah Hinted iu The Miner home weekn ni nee, thin company Hout the money to itii toicmuu, Muir, with which to pay oil all of it h indebtedness in Oregon. Instead ot paying these debts, he took what In claiined to ho duo him lor wagon, at the rate nt $!lfi() a mutitli, ictiiiucd the remainder to the company at Boston and loft thoHtiito, Ho Iiiih Iiooii discharged. Men who had been doing work on oontriiets toi tin company on tin varinuH pioprortiet, tiled lions, Maynr McCullnch Iiiih loin lotained iih 11 ttiu tiny dy tin Kxplorntion com pany, to iunpect tlio work, audit tin hills nuil pioiulses to forward (In money as soon as his lopnit is to cei veil. Don't ()o to St. Louis 'Till you call at or write to the Chi ciim, Milwaukee and St, Paul rail road. Office 1MI Thii- Stieet, Port land, Oicgou. Low rates to al points Mast, iu connection with all triuiHCuiitiuontalH. W. S. BOWK, (leueial Agnt, Portland. Oregon. In addition to tlio creek men tioned there arc two or three others which can he really tapped, itiHuriiiK a water Hiipply easily from trout to friiHt. Tht'HO placers have been worked for the last twenty one yearn, without a hi'iihoii having been missed, mid have yielded largo retuniH. On Ulack llutte cr-ek Mr. Wright Iiiih checked up "J'.',0()0( and S'JOO.UOO 011 Kast creek from punt operations. lied rock Ih from eight to twenty tout deep. The Hit nation Ih one which niakoH placer work compara tively eaH.v, and there Ih enough ground unmoved to guarantee pay tor years and yearH to come. Mr. Wrllit. hii.vh it in the intention to pipe nil' the entile hill to which reference Iiiih Iiooii made. Another giant Iiiim been added. Hcgmding the quart property, Milliner Wright says that work will lie rcHumcd there in a very short time. The H.'iO-foot depth capacity hoirit in now at Whitney and the contract for removing it to the mine will he let at once. It will he Installed hooii mil general work Htarted up. GOOD AVERAGE AT THE VALLEY QUEEN Tom C. (iray, superintendent, of the Valley (Juooti, came iu Saturday from the mine with a lino of samples from the face of No. !t drift, which, assayed hy McKweu, Aithur V Me Kwcn, aveiaged ti T . : J Ti iu gold. Work is hoiug concentrated, Mr. Ouiy says, nu the No. l dritt, south of the main crosscut. The vein shows tour or live exceedingly rich stringers, fiom which those samples wcio taken. The entire width nt vein matter, Mr. (ray ays, measures something over six toot. MRNISILMEISr PAPtRS IN BALD MOUNTAIN AND MAMMOTH CASE ! ,lot.M Snow, deputy sheritl, was 1 luir t mlii v In coi vo l'hi liishinoiit , 1 " , papers on the Bank nt Sumptertoi 1 ,:...! 1... !.. 11. .1.1 I Mountain and Mammoth for eastern creditors. The sale of these properties, as pievinusly mentioned, takes place May -8, on the prumises, the Bald Mountain at 10 a. m. aud the Mam moth at '2 p. in. SOON 10 START PIPING AT BROWN BEAR PLACERS Tom Brovui came iu yesterday from the Brown BoHr placers on Kast Kngle, in which ho aud Jack llazle- wood are joiutly interested. At present Mr. Brown is digging ditch from Brown Bear creek to the ground, a distance of ahout half a mile to the diggiugge, aud will ho reauy for piping iu about two weeks. When theis work is completed aud operations started, another force will ho started on a ditch from Dixie creek, a mile from Brown Bear ceek, and pralleilug it, to couduct the water into the latter and thus in crease the supply. WHAT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY HAS DONE The niemherH of the United States Geological Survey in Washington recently celebrated the quarter-centennial anniversary of its organiza tio.n The more important results achieved hy tlio Survey during the twenty-live years of its existence are sot forth iu its recent bulletin (No. 227) entitled "Tlio United States tloologieal Survey: Its Origin, De velopment, Organization, aud Opera tions." Thin hulJotin is intended lor gratuitous diHtriliution, and cop ies of it will he given away as souve nirH iu connection with tlio Survey's exhihit at the Louisiana Purchat-.o Imposition. Since the establishment, of the Survey a complete topogiaphic map has lieen made of 020,850 square miles ol the area of the United States. In other words, the Survey has fin lushed the mapping, on more or less detailed scales, of 20 per cent of the area of the country, including Aaska, or III per cent excluding Alaska. This great map of the United Staten, of which nearly one-third has boon completed, is necessarily pub lished iu the form of an atlas. The portion completed consists of lll'JT atlas sheets, printed iu three colors from copper-plate engravings. The topographic maps of the (ieological Survey have greatly expedited inves tigations made hy the cities of their water supply aud have lieen of the highest value to railway companies and state highway hureims. The geological mapping of the sur face formations has lieen extended over ahout 171,000, square miles and 100 geologic folios have heeu pub is! hod, while nearly an equal number are in various stages of prepara tion. Kach of these folios presents a practically complete history of the topography, geology, and mineral re sources of the area described. 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The Survey, through its bydro - graphic branch, including the ro- clamatou service, has recorded, dur ' ing the last fifteen years the maxi mum, minimum,, aud mean discharges of all the more important rivers, , aud for shorter periods the same facta concerning al the lesser tributaries of the many hundreds of streams in the United States. The physical characteristics of the river basiua , have been studied in respect to their forestation, soil-covering, etc , and a vast amount of data has beeu accumu lated from which it is poossible to estimate closely the volume or run otf of each of the streams. The do i velopmeut of the water powers of the i country, exspecially in the southern states, has received a great impetua during' the last few years through facts brought to light by tho Sur vey's work. The Survey,, by itadivisiou of geo graphy and foerstry, baa examined iu detail 110,000 H,uare miles and baa made a classicrlatiou of the lauds iih forested, grazing, desert, aud arablo. Final reports on the rewerTes havo tieeu prepared, which show the charac ter aud amount of the timber on each and furnish many other facta that will serve as a busis for the for est management of these properties. Perhaps the immediate value to the people ot the Suivey's work is best shown by the aid it renders in de veloping the mineral resources aud in forwarding Important engineering projects. The i uveal iagt ions of tho mining geology of Lead vi lie has, for instance, guided exploration aud secured economical mining in a dis trict that has propduced between 200,000r000 and 8:100,000,000. It has also taught the mining engin eer and the miner the practical importance of geologically studying their work. The investigation of the origin aud geologic relations of the Lake Superior iron ores and the pub lication of numreous repots on that region have directed the pros pector iu the discovery of deposits aud have suggested to the miner the most economical methods of de velopment. The result Ih that thin region now leads the world in the pro duction of iron ore. Detailed ureal mapping aud the determination of underground structure iu the Ap palachian coal fields are placing tho development of its coal, petroleum, and gas resunices upon a scientific, basih aud relieving these industries of a large part of the hazard aud un certainty which have always attended them; and the publication of reliable statistics of mineral production baa furnished a sound commercial basis for all branches of tho mineral industry.