THE SUMPTER MINER
Wednesday, May 2?, 1904
The Sumoter Miner
OFFICIAL PAI'l-N OP IMF. CITY OF SUMI'TEW
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J, W. LONNEI.I.A
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I ntcrc. 11 the pittldftlcu In Sumpter, Orecon, tor
irniiniilssliin tlimuuli the irulls j mjComJ clis?
mutter
sunst,iMirioN WAtEi
iip Yen ......
alx Moiitlis
ALWAYS IN ADVASOIi.
Thi) output of (old from (ho
TraiiHviiiil is Increasing wonderfully.
According It) a lepott, Hindi! nt u
London meet in, of tin olllcers of
Mm Standard Hunk of .South Allien, ; lloston Transcript, from Hishop Sat
the production of the mines of (.rent , terlce that the "the tenor of life in
Miitiiin'H new South African colony Washington has become less natural,
for 1 !M t:t uiih nearly dC'J.riOO.OOO. social conditions have changed, and
TIiIh was almost douhln the amount tor the worse." In the old days
for I00'2. The output is increasing whatever faults Washington may have
month hy mouth and Indications are had, it cultivated a wholseome and
(hut the output for 1001 will reach even amusing democracy. Kvery
7Ti, 000, (Mill, which is approximately man was Letter than every other,
the high llguni loucheii before tin because no one knew when next he
Hour war hrol out. might he on top, and to whoever had
'tho requisite clothes -even the
One of I'tirtlannd'H commercial clothes wore not absolutely essential
organlatlniiH has employed a pro- the national tiee lunch route lay
fcHsioiuil liooiuer fo IioohI (hat town open day ami evening through the
and Irilintary country. Ho is re houses of political and social until
ported to lie very enf husiastio over hies. Hut lately all that has l.cen
the poHsihilities. The gentleman changing. The hcgiiiuiim of the end
has hitiiu operating in Texas and more appeared sovenil 'years ago, at a cer
recently in Now Orleans, going tain iiiemoriihlc 'lance in a private
lo rorllainl from that city. It house, when the lorcign ) ntentales
will he an interesting sludy In whIcIi and a tew American exclusive. were
his enthuriiaHin cool oft and turn lulu roped oil' liom the herd ot everydip
disgunl, im he hecomes iamiliiir and folks in evening clothes. Since
finally ni'ipiainted with the Poitland
and Oregon spirit, which could he
graphically represented hy a cur in
Ji cow Htalile.
Philip n. Iliiles, publisher of (he
1'NC.iflo iMiner, writes The Siimplei'
Miner Hint in a "ccciil editoiial this
paper made a mistake, in confusing ten yeais ago, sa. the Mining Win Id.
the New Vork Mining Stock Kxchaiigc p1(l M,,.,tv cuhanceii alue ol these
with the Wall Street Mining ami Umdeilul stones is due to two
Stock Kxchango. He savs the latter i.u,h.h, first, the greatly extended
is a farce, while the former, In which ,,,.,, nf the diamond drill; i-econd,
Wheeler A Co. ami otheis leputaphle t lint the earhous are lecomiug seem
lirokeis hi'loug and which was com- j,v i-urce, the siipply heing iuade
mended hy his paper, is all light. ,,uiite to t he demiiml Diamond drill
The Minei hopes that it is, will he iuuniitacturcr. keep in supply upwards
glad to loin n that the dillerence ,, ....veinl thousand dollats worth ot
tietwetiu the two is in methods, us well hurts, wW are hauilled with exces
as in iiaine, ami cheeifully makes ive caie. The cost ot drilling would
this statement in justice to the he giently reduced weie a much less
Pacific Miner. expensive aiticle Hihshtutcd tor the
diamond, hut natuie was exciMiliugly
A jolt lot ot uuiiau.ed hacilli fiom M'i'i ' H" manufacture ot the
the plague sulle.e.h in India has ""' l-w hiiIwIhium', diamomls,
heeu lost soiuewhe.e hetween St. Paul '", ,v"' ' '"'lina.y hlack dia
aud Chicago. A I.uiiiliiii m-iiitUt I n.--. -. inl Kfin. hut
was letiiiniug from India with the ' oomme.cial uses iucwu.parahle.
mlcrol.es, which w, re destined to. the 'Hm Culled Stales p.oduces no
,.i,rned men ot England and (!er many hlm'k diamond!., the stones that we
in their icseaiches icgaidiug the
plague, hut home way or other he let
the hunch escape him. Cicat con
sternation now prevails along the
route tioiu St. Paul to Chicago. It
was tit tit talked ot putting the Chi
oago police loicc on the track of the
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IMlHP, I'll, nill'll ., .,r r..i.'1'.i i.,,. .
this ioice would have ditllculty in
Shown imu
shadowing a load ot hay across town,
this plan was abandoned,
are still nt large.
The hugs
1
There was f 1 .i,ji . .i,n 1 1 excess ot ,
exports lor the twelve mouths ending
i
April last, according to the state-1
ment ol the total values of imports
and exports of the United States, as
set forth by the department of com
metro hikI labor by its bureau of
statistic. During the preceding
period of similar length the excess
was llll2,!lli'i,7,.l-. This shows an
iiicrcsac of $80. nr.4 02 for the first
ten month! of the prurient fiscal year.
During this period there entered
free ot duly merheaudise to the value
of .:iS0, 7 fU 101. The dutlnhle mer
chandise was valued at 118, '240, -i
I 'JO, mill. Inn a total importation of
$H'J!l,(J0aJ.!H I. The exportri during
the same ten month. amounted to
.l.'J17,Hri!).'j:iri. The exports for the
month of December were most val
uable, the amount leing cl71.HH
."(!(!. August was the pootest month
of the year, with only .rf!i, I loVlfn.
The exportri ot the pant month were
valued greater than those of Ant II.
lilll.'l, or I'.Mj'J; hut Icsss than those
of 1000 or I1IU1.
It Is unpleasant to leatn, says the
then, lacllis descensus Kuropae.
iilack diamonds, or hortn, such as
are used for the cutting edges in
iliamnoil drills, have of lecent years
advanced materially in cost, the
pieseut marked quotations heing
aliotit ;?r."i per karat, as against
CM
o.acK u.amonos. u, su o,s i. . , hu k,tllw, Jni lllMU t ther ,
use being purchased in Paris or Lot,-, nw f fw hmun!(1 ;
. ttlW ,,t l,,!,'-,,i,,m"rlom. wav or another making no!
South At.ican origin, lots are, (lfin,m,0 w, t ,Mll nmt .
tuiissive forms ot the diamond, having
little or no cleavage. The true bott
occuts in rounded lorm, made up of
a confused mjgiegate of crystals, and
ij .Hint clii'htU- hiirdi.r tliitn the true
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gem stone, The ordinary size used
tor dt filing weighs from one-half to
n,u v"t mi" m spfi-uu s.-n ni.uivn
running tip to six carats are used.
The crowns of large drills ten inches
I in diameter contain at times as high
W rrm wo,u, llf horts.
The l.eadvllle Herald-Times pub
lishes a sensible article on the
treatment of low grade ores, that is
of especial interest to eastern Oregon
operators. Here, though there are
some Immense deposits of from three
to to five dollar rock, no oue has
ever tried to extract the values
Within a mile ot Sumpter there is .
.'Iii-fnot ledge that carries higher
valueri than are found in the Home
stake.
The Herald-Democrat says in
part :
Jt is a significant fact that thoi
great metal mines of the world, with j
possibly a few noted exceptions, are ,
deriving their profits from ores which;
would he called low grade. Colo -
rado seems to he somewhat hack ward
in the treatment of extremely low-
the treatment 01 exueniei.y iuw
grades, only a comparatively few
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uluii as to ne anie to ooiaio me neat
results, i.ow graue mm. u"- '""
ceptihleto the cyanide treatment,'
offer the greatest opportunity tor
nmlviiiL' a wood nrofit, hut the ore
instil exist in sufllciently large qtian
titles to redner the installation ot
huge plant., profltahle.
Jn the earlier years of mining in
Colorado the "process man" was in
ahundant evidence. Monuments to
his genius and impracticahility are to
lie met with in every gulch, in the
shape of decaying mills and the
wrecks ol machinery. On the strength
ot a tunnel and a few assays the pro
nutter was certain there was a "moun
tain of ore" in sight and in those days
eastern capital was readily available
for western mining enterprise. We
have no doubt that millions of dol
lats was wasted in Colorado in these
profitless mill ventures an enor
mous plant with no ore, or ample
ore and the wrong process.
i "hlack sheep" who is sent into the
linker county politics hinges , West to develop mtuitiK proerties with
the repeal of the Kclcly corporation j lm,uy HtM, umiuestioued fiom east
tax law. That law is particularly j ,,,. i aU( connections. Thin
ohnoxious to the mining roiiiiuuleH clll!a H curtiiiu to make costly mis
looking for get-rich-quick spots l tnlca mid niutiy reauUiufe failures.
Oregon. They say it prevents de-1 f jt Were only the business of
velopment, when the f.icts are it only t,M)(40 wn(, ire toolisb enough lo put
prevents wild cat schemes. The pen-1 u Jp lll(Jllev u anch U11VV jg0 )mn,iH wo
pltt are satisfied with Hie Kddy law.
It taxes the transient corporations in
proportion to the privileges they
enjoy from the state. The people of
Maker county do not desire the repeal L.0mjutoiit. Frequently some who
of the law. It is the mining pro-1 ,ve ttaliiel success in other, per
inoters alone, who desire it. Not , ,mpH a1e(l ll0jJt w, HIV techni
one bona fide corporation in Oregon I vu ,m,0imujt.i mi f,mcial ability,
has objected to the law. Mist ore-
gonial).
The Pendleton paper displays, not
oluy iguorauct1, but malice, in print
ing such stnlt as this, which it per
sists in doing trom time to time. It
also furnishes a key to the character
of the mind that writes it ; a narrow i(ieea fortunate if their corupnay is
one warped by ptejudice, stored withl80 miIiee(i m orKimlzod that they
superficial knowledge and a flolire u,OVe hiirm from thia back lire,
conception of its own importance Wo (k,sre tn 8y , ,.onoII8ion, that
and infallibility.
The truth about this matter is
1 that the wildcatters don't care a
snap tor the Kddy law. If they
chance to he selling much stock, they
ter ot little concern as to how much
noes into the development, If stock
sale are not active they simply don't J
pay the tax. The interest of the J
stockholders do not keep them awake;
nights. The people on whom this f
tax tails as a burden, are those who
believe they owu a good prospect, are
not willing to pay out sixty per cent
of the treasury as a commission on
sales, aud therefore sell in small
quantities to friends, or else trade
for grub and powder, doing the work
at tho mines themselves. These Hre
the ones who can't aifotd to pay the
tax, aud are affected adversely di
rectly. Of course, the spirit of the
law, displaying state antagonism to
mining, frightens timid capital and
has injured he industry geuerally.
Here in Baker county, where people
see every day this evil effect,
whether they are engaged in mining
nr not. the voters are unanimously
opposed to the iniquitous measure
and ate clamoring for its repeal.
" - " T
ueHt(jrl Mtl08,,iere seems to he
tcujHr, tHVorhiiIe to the develop-
, . tnenltv known as
1 ,m)(.k,,mf .. euye ihc Mining World.
No man that has any connection with
, ., nrnmntimi enter-
pris.es has escaped the annoying and
,aometimes
disastrous consequences
of this anomaly. (One would uatii-
rav think that the local residents
; interested in boosting and
' mm, tho whoe ,1atrlcl for -eM,au
reasons, if not on grounds ot local
patriotism. If the management (toes
not conduct the mine exactly to euil.
the local "expers" and "wise men",
a howl Is sent up aud goes forth to
all the world. lit the management i
progressive and has new ideas tho
local critics condemn them without it
hearing. These local "experts" all
' ' know just how to run the other fel
low's huslness,antl if their gratuitous,
advice is not accepted on the spot
they proclaim that the management,
of the property is incompetent or
perhaps dishonest, tt is very seldom
that mining managers unci promoters
look for any local support, and if they
do get it, it is accepted with so many
conditions and "if" and "unds"
that it costs moru than it is worth.
We are not in sympathy with tho
"rich man's son,." or the proverbial
would have nothing to say. These
incompetiiuts are an injury to any
mining district. Hut not all 'men
,ni( ..(1,JU,e out froIn t. cn8t
are
l(j wjj0 re t.
impetent to meet new
ptohlems and solve them with u min
imum of errors, go to manage aud
develop western properties. These
men are continually harassed by the
criticising, carping and malicious-
of . . m.itioisms. and thev are
the local communities are directly
interested in tho develpoment uud
should encourage rather than criti
cise them.
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