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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1904)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, June i, 1904 MAN AND FOR F. D. Fuller Arrived Thursday to Take The Place of General Manager. Fred H. Kill lor, of New York, ao ooinpaiiled liy Mra. I"ti 1 1 t, arrived Thursday to HHHiiiiie the manage ment and superintendence ot tlie Oregon Moudliiig mill Helloing nun- finny, npmalihg (lie .Siiiupter Hiueltei. Mr. Fuller in a practical iiml tech nical amldlor man of large experience in Molilalia and New York, thor oughly eovitiHilnl witli tho operation of smelting plantH. It will lie remeiiilinroil that, lie wan here hint -winter at (tie inatiiiicc of eastern utoeklioldoiH, in the matter of reeoin mending an ore purchasing fund, -asked tor liy the mniiagemciit. Alter making thorough investigation re Jative to the ores of the district and 4 ho adaptahility of the Hinelter to (heir 'icattuoht, he unhesitatingly mi vised the raising nf such a fund. At the late meeting of the directors J 11 Milwaukee, Mr. Fuller wan up ijiointed manager, in the plaee of Dr. ;Kd W. Mueller, who Iiiih lieen mix ioiia lor Hotne lime to lie relieved ol the position. The tact ot It i h rcslg nation hiei been known to his friends for Home lime. The hinelter is a Klllou, Warner, Stewart promotion, with which Dr. Mueller Iiiih lieen iriontillcil as milliliter hIiicc it h earli est inception. He feels now that the enterprise Iiiih lieen hi ought micccss iiillv thinitgh the diileient stages Kd organization and tlnancinu, and it hut it ih time for him to step out . and let moie technical men take charge. With IIiIh purpose in mind, Dr. Mueller leudeied his icsignatinu an general manager. Besides this, his JOHN DAY. PIONEER. DIES IN POVERIY In (ha Masonic hall in Lcwit-tou testa in Mate the remains ot John Day, a pioneer of 'the west, say a correspondent of the Helena hide pendent. Vcstcrday morning at 11 o'clock John Day breathed his last in tho county hospital in this city and in puhhing ended one of the most adventitious careers in the history ot the building of the wch). Fifty -two years ago John Day left the home of his boyhood in Wes ohcHtcr comity, New York, and crossed the pains to California, and since that time this typical pioneer has piuticipated in the reclamation of the wiliU of nearly every state of the XorttiMPtit. Mr. iDay was tine of the earliest of the gold seekers to work in the MONEY SMELTER various other interests in the district (scarcely nccoiid in impo i lance to the Hinelter, claim hid time, and he felt that a mote technical man who could hefter devote his entile atten tion to the management and uper inteudeuce ot the plant would he advisable. Dr. Mueller will remain in Sumpter in connection with hi other culcrprir-ca. It in iuci lentally learned that he will devote bin time to a new enterprise that may mean as much tor Sumpter an Iiiih the Hinelter. What thin in the public may learn later. Mr. Fuller Iiiih not lieen here lung enough to matuieauy plans icgardihg thi management of the company and plant. 'However, he stale that in a few days he will give a detailed statement to the pi ess lelalive to the iiicIIumIh he intends to pursue. Ah stated in The Miner some time ago, it is understood that ample lunds for the purchase ot all otcs that may he ottered for sale have lieen pledged, and there will he no dllilculty in this diicctiun. Further than this, as to time of stint inn or any other explicit information, the public will wait with iuteiest Mr. Fuller's statement. It.) t It Mr. Fuller and Dr. Mueller at this time decline to make public any further tacts. Sumpter and eastern Oregon will welcome Mr. Fuller to the district, and lend their cordial support to the eulerpiise, as in the past. The in dustry is of vital importai.ee to eastern Otcgou ami will contribute more than any one enterprise to the success of the mining industry. mines ot Washington, Oregon and i Idaho. In Oregon a noble stream and a town bear his name, and years i ago his inline was familiar in all the mining camps ot not only the coast states, but on the Comstock lode and i the great silver camps of Utah and Colorado, and in the placer gulches l of Montana he was well known. i During the Indian wins on the coast and in Idaho, John Day won fame as i a tearless tighter, and the Ked men in respect to his prowess called him "Had Medicine." During the early days of the camp of Salmon City, Idaho, Mr. Day ac cumulated considerable wealth, and at other times in his life he was in comfortable circumstances, but his generosity and too liberal business methods caused the loss of everything he had, and he died a poor mtiu. Many resldeuts of Fergus county, who knew Mr. Day intimately, speak of him in highly eulogistic terms. aud hia kindness, and geuerosity are the traits upon which it is eviueut he founded the great friendship that existed for him every where he lived. Mr. Day came to Montana in 1871, locating at Diamond City, which was then a prosperous placer mining camp. He came to the ilud- I Mi basin in the very early eighties, locating on Huflalo creek, near the Judith gap, where ho established a horse ranch. The lluanoial depres - sioti of 18!).'i made him a bankrupt at I an age when he was unable to again lenew the struggle for wealth. For1 the past teu years he has made hisj home with trlends who were neigh-1 burs while he was nrosneroiiss, but! were ft lends indeed in his adversity. At the ripe age ot eighty-six years this pioneer, after a brief illness, laid down the hutdcti oi life to solve the problem of the great beyond. Mr. Day having been a member of the Masonic fraternity for more than , half a century, the Lowiaton lodge of Masons are in charge of the funeral serviced, and his body rests in state i in the Masonic temple. i INVES10RS ARE WELL PLEASED Colonel .John C. Devine, of Wheel ing, West Virginia, who came in with a nartv of Wheeling people in terested in the Cold Coin a few days ago, left this afternoon. He will make a trip to Malheur, where he also has interests, before returning home. The rest of the party will remain several days longer. Colonel Devine is gr unity pleased with the district so far as he has been able to observe. The people were Interested by .1. M. Doyle, who is the original' owner of the property. Colonel Devine says: "It's my llrst trip here, and 1 am most favorably impressed. 1 am fully persuaded that Sumpter is des tined to make one of the greatest gold camps in the country. We are well pleased with our holdings heie. Work is going on uninterruptedly at the property, with good lesults. " MINERAL FOIINND IN A NtW DISTRICT IN IDAHO Prospectors who have gone up the river bou:d for the lllack Warrior district have been making some very ititriit iiii ilihenviM'iiM ut nnintri iilmiv the way. As they could not get into If lack Warrior, on account of the snow, they have put in the time prospecting at other places, whete the snow had gone, and some have found promising property. Due man said yectenlay he had heard from a prospector whom he staked, to theetfeet that he had a flue ledge some miles below the lllack Warrior. The man wrote he had never seen such float as he met with in his prospecting, and he thought he had a ledge as good as auy in the dis trict tor which he started. It seems altogether likely that many discoveries will be made in that section of the state. For years it has received no atteu- tion, hut the phenomenal discoveries in lllack Warrior will attrat a host of prospectors this year. These will spread all over that section, and they will undoubtedly tiud many great ledges that have hertofore escaped attention. Huise Statesman. THAT BURNT RIVER ROAD c g Ql I fereflCe OT 1101111011 3S , i j. TL RpC4 PniltP f(r , lU IIICUtM I1UU1U I Ul it to Follow. About the matter of a road to tho Hurnt river country, at this late date l there has arisen a difference of opinion as to the best route, and I some of the farmeis down that way , want a new oue selected. The routo chosen for the road, now uearly 'completed by Sumpter people, was selected after caieful investigation. V. K. Mead, than whom no one in the county is moie familiar with ita topography, assisted by J. N. Doane, jalso expei ieuced in such matters, i looked over the ground thoroughly 'and selected this route as the best. It was then laid out by a competent surveyor. Jt is not yet completed and will r;e vastly improved when it is finished. Thete are two other routes, each with advocates among the residents of the llurnt river country. One goen down that steiam from King's ranch to Whitney, the present mute cross lug the river just thirteen times tlml would lie imputable for several mouths in the yeat, under any conditions. The other is known as the Trent: creek route, which Mr. Mead, Mr. Doane and the county surveyor say is no bettei natural road wy than the one selected, even if an good, and is four or five miles out of tho way. COPPER DISCOVERED IN MOUNT RASTUS DISTRICT The last strike in Mount Kastus, and it is a sensational one, is a ledge of copper ore six feet in width. A sample of the ore brought to this city by Mr. Archie Murray can be seen at the Democrat office. The Hud was luude at Murray Hill by Messrs. Kilmer Mhd Uuiiey, two experienced prospectors and mining men. Another strike ot equal importance was made a tew days ago by the foreman of the Pittsburg company, at a point on Camp creek, a short iUl"lw? rou J"l,Mt ""J1" Cl The ledge is free milling gold oro , twenty-live fe,t in width. I Coming out from Mount liaatua district Mr. Murray passed tour four horse teams loaded with mining timbers from Maker City to the Pitts burg company at Mount h'astus, to be used iu a UtOO-foot tunnel. Mr. Murray says the camp is tak ing on considerable activity, both in a mining and business way, and hh development progresses the mines are making excelleut showing. Demo crat. Don't Go to St. Louis 'Till you call ut or write to the Coi icafco, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail- road. Office i:u ThiH Street, Port laud, Oregon. Low rates to a points East, iu couuection with all transcontiueutals. W. S. fiOWE, General Agnt, Portland. Oregon.