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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1904)
COVERS THOROUGHLY THE GOLD FIELDS of the INLAND EMPIRE EASTERN INVESTORS IN OREGON MINES Pay for AND READ IT Sbbwwwbmbbbm"wimmwwmbmwmmmmmmmbbmmiib""""""""""""""'," FAVORABLE REPORT ON BURNT RIVER ROAD Committee of Citizens View The Route And Pronounce it Entirely Feasible. Tint gentlemen who drove over tho Hiirut river ninil ysotorday afternoon, Messrs. itnll, .Srliwiirlx, liorgmau, (.'use, Dunne mid Mayor Alct 'ul loi?h, returned homo IiihI. evening, unaui iiioiih in I ho opinion tlnil if Ih an on I holy foiiHihlo ronlo, I ho host Unit, could lio selected mill llio only ono thul tho IiiihIiiohh iiioii of Sumpter wmild ho justlllod in constructing. There are two Htoop grades, neither of which Ih an IiikI a piece of road at. that oroHHlng the Hiiuitiilt to lirnulto, both of wlilcli ran bo grotaly lin lirovoil. 10. 1. Horgman says: "There Ih nothing ""' matter with tho route. There an ono or two hail places that, can ho Improved. "Wo ought to compete tho road as soon iih phohIIiIo and unito In en deavoring to liavo a mull Htar ronto h! iiht IhIiimI between Nuinptor and tint liuriit river country post nllloos. It will ho of liii'Htimnhlo valno to thin town." .loo .Schwartz: "Tho road can be inado iih good iih any in tldn county, with tho expenditure of far Ichh money than to coiiHtrnct ono along oithor ot tho other ronton suggested. Tho ono thai crosses tho rlvor thlr toon times seems to mo to ho en tirely impracticable. I am not in lavor of building a road to Whitney, anyway." .1. W. Mall "One thing isoirlnln; Mr. Donne wasted no money in con structing that seven milen of road for 000. I can't recall an iiiHtance wheto money was iiioio economically and jmlicioHiily expended. Theie will ho no trnnhlo in making an ex cellent road of thin one and Sump tor business men could not male a more prolltahlo invcHtmont than to complete It at tho earliest possible date." K. A. Case: "Tim road in a hot ter one that tho l!umilo road wiih when I Hot came here, It can lie made far heller than that ono Ih to day. There Ih no trouble with the road or the route; there in something behind t lilts opposition, .Mayor .Mc t'ullnoh, or Muuo other diplomat, ought lo io over there for a few days, have heart to heart till les with the farmers and locate the friction. We i would lie a lot of leather heads to build a road into Whitney, and block heads not to complete thin one. Ih that Hpoelllo enough? " Moth Messrs. MeUolloch and Donne are familiar with tho country in that vicinity and have boon 1'rlondH to tho oulorpriwo from tho Htarl.. It wiih Mayor .MoUolloah who revived tho proportion after it had been dor mant for a year or more and, aided by Messrs. O'Kourko and Doano, in duced tho hiiHinoHH men of Sumpter to uudorliiko IIh construction. Whether or not tho favorable re port of those reproHontativo business men will oiiiiho tho Morning Knocker to bury IIh hammer. Ih a mater of little consequence; lint it Hhould in dime thlH town to iiHHiHt in complet ing tho road and oiiiimi Its citizens to turn a deaf ear to the nlauiler that I J). OWtuurko Ih actuated Hololy hy a hoMIhIi motive. JUGGLtD GOLDEN KULt AND CHURCHMEN'S MONEY Kroiu time to time during tho last two or three yearn, newspaper accountH have appeared of tho operatloiiH of the Coition llule Mining company, which wan llnaiiced mainly among York Htalo church people, who weio attracted hy tho pleasant sound of the company's name, and failed to hedge about tho organizers hy tho careful watchfulnesH that good busl iieHH experience would suggest. Tho llninh of tho euterpriHO Ih donor I hod in the following telegraph dispatch from New Vork. A II til ih of the Cnldou Uulo Mining company, which won fame several years ago hy being inaugrntitod with prayers, have been terminated amid tears of fiOO stockholders. Many who once tiad confided in fie 61.000,000 cuprite copper mint in Arizona assembled at the law otllcu of Thomas liilorau and voted funds to prosecute 1'romotors W. II. Lake and John II. Ilihhard. Kot-ldents of Vonkers, Flushing and Uaokousack, clerks, widows and housewives, all one time believers in the (Joldeu Hule, listened four hours to a report read by an export accountant of ex pend! lures by the two Vonkers churchmen, Lake and Ilihhard, president and treasurer, respectively. The ivpnrt showed that these ot!!cers had not considered it at all Important to account tor j?.'I'J0,,V.M for stock sold, S'JO.OOO of which, sub scribed by stockholders for a smelter, wasdiibbled away in "extras" until only SfiOO ever got to Aiizoua. Assets of IS, 000 are revealed by tho oxports' report to havo actually ox istod and 8 11, 000 unaccounted for "wont to tho stenographer. "- -Exchange. GO FIND A MINE, YOU TENDERFOOT It Will Do You Good to Prospect Whether fou Strike It or Not. With I ho arrival of summer comes also tho annual season for piospeet ing, and already throughout tho dis tricts of tho west, tho rough-and-ready men of tho trail, upon whom tho mining Industry most depends, are hieing for tho mountains, for tho deep woods, for tho desert. Nothing cm stop them neither summer's heat nor winter's cold ; icy cragH or hlisotrring plains all are alike to tho seeker for gold. Inspecting is a polasure as well iih an art, and a groat many slaves of tho city oltlco dirt and grime would do well to pack a grub kit mid hit tho trail prospect a while, taste tho genuine freedom of tho uioun taineer, breathe Clod's pure ozone of tho outer world, roll up in a blanket mid sleep next the earth, drink pure water and black colfoo, and eat flapjacks and bacon and beans. It will do any mini good, whether ho strike a bonanza in tho nature of golden treasuro or not, for ho its sure to receive nature's tan of health and vigor and come homo reincarnated. Prospecting, like many other phases of the gold getting business is an art, and to become prolllelont in it requires considerable experi once, llowevei, tho oldtune pron poet or will tell you that a fool can find a ledge where the wisest man of the pan and rocker failed, "tiold Ih where you find it, ' and it does not matter very much who looks for it, as its discovery often falls to the lot of tho most uninitiated. Hut it is well to make a study either from books, and by the aid of samples, or from some one well posted upon the character and formation of the more common ores. A little study of this WORTH READING YOU CAN MAKE MONEY IF YOU BUY THESE STOCKS VALLEY QUEEN PRICE 9 CENTS Capital 5250,000. The Comine Great Mine of the Cable Cove District. Recent big strikes show values of over $1SJ per too A sure Producer. An investment in Valley Queen will manv times double your money. J J ,. BUCK HORN PRICE 10 CENTS Capital $500,000. Will be a Greater Blue Bird. It has the ore bodies oi this famous property. An investment In Buck Horn is like finding money J J , v J w Write today for Prospectus and full information. Men tion No. 60 ar.d we will mail you free six months the NORTH AMERICAN MINER WHEELER & CO. kind will come well iu hand when you begin to use your hand pick in the mountains. Of course, it must bo understood before starting that to go prospecting you must leave your auto behind. You must he willing to rough it and dine upon "camp sinkers" of your own or your pardnor's cooking for several weeks. Von must remembor that you will bo deprived of tho opportunity of swearing at tho cook for making the beans too salty, or for frying tho bacon too hard, as the usual rule is to turn tho duties of cooking over to the man who llrst complains about tho grub. Tho prospector must, content himself with one or two tough Indian polnos cayuses for carrying tho pack. If it is pnsslhlo get a burro, as ho is tho best animal for the purposo. Tho burro will never stray far from camp, will carry his load patiently and willingly, will eat anything from chaparral brush to scrub oak loaves, and will go anywhere a man can go, except up a tree. Tho pack should bo complete but never made burdensome with "duMlo'j1 not absolutely necessary. Tho grub kit consists, llrst of a cotFoo pot and frying pan. Then there is tho bag of Hour and the beans always beans. Space must also bo made for small cans of salt and soda. Sugar Is not needed, though it may bo carried in as small quantity as posslblo, but good coffee must never bo overlooked A roll of woolen blankets, a rltlo pick, pan, shovol, plenty of ammuni tion and a good axe complete tho pack. J ii a tiu box, and occupying an inside pocket of his vest, whore they will always bo found dry, tho prospector carries his matches, and it goes without saying that ho will take as good care of his tobacco; and he is novor without the big hunting kuifo that serves more pur poses than any other part of his out lit, unless It he his pan prospecting pan. As to districts, the west is full of them, (io find a mine, there is ono waiting for you somewhere in the vast mineral demesne of Uncle Sum's domain. Von vlll Hud it if you will only look for it. Mining World. The Ashland Tidings aunouncos tho arrival there of Mrs. Claude llasoho. She is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Joo Hurt, former residents of Sumpter. Bankers 32 BROADWAY, N. Y- I