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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (June 22, 1904)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, June 22, !9u4 BEAR GULCH DISTRICT NEAREST TO SUMPTER bold lust evening, when directors uud officers were elected. Wbeu asked for these names, Hummer was decidedly mirly, und refused to grant the re I quest. He gave us his reason for ! adopting this unusual policy that he (was afraid of the cut-rate brokers. J Just what lie was driving at can ouly Great Activity and No Little Excitement in This Newest Oregon Camp. oo surmised, ic is Known mat nis brother is one of the most activo out raters in the northwest, with oiilces in Sea ttle, and the impression prevails , that he is connected with him in a business way. The natural inference, therefore, is that he does not want cut-rate brokers to learn from whom they can secure stock, other than himself. He evidently doesn't want any competition in that line. J. H. BROWN FOUND THAT BLIND VEIN Tim people of Suiiiplor do not rOalizo that within two to three miles of IIiIh town (hern is a mining camp which at present is the scone ol much activity and no little excitement ; but such is the cnae. Sunday allornonn Mayor MoColloeh drove a Miner lepieseulat Ive down to Boar gluch and they, guided by Mr. of hope. The people who are work ing on A. .J. Denny's property, ad joining the Coldeu Chariot, which llrsl attracted attention to the dis trict, say they have also found some thing good. Mr Denny's partner was met on the road some distance (from the mine and gave out this in formation, but was in a huiry and COPPER0P0LIS MAY INSTALL A PLAN1 in thoi ""''' ""' " '""' to show how good Mr. Nelson, j H. F. He Wolf, of New Brunswick, a thing he had struck. T,m mentioned above, is now working on , left this morning to visit the Copper nub ," lll(f",(' ' Miort distance from thoiopolis. smeller lime quarry and kill, and says it, like every thing else found in that section, shows up very encouragingly. The district has been place1!' mined for years and large amounts of gold have been taken out. It is a beautiful country, open and not very rugged, with plenty of grans growing everywhere. One can drive with a buggy all through the timber and over the bills. In most places the ledges will have to be opened with shafts. VISITED CRACKER CREEK YESTERDAY Nelson, who is inteiesled ) itiikee (lirl, inspected that property and serveial other prospects, Miner lias on several occasions lisbed stories about the Vaukee (iirl. reports gallieied on the streets of Sumpler; but one must see the properly in order to realize how in teresting a proposition it really is and bow pregnant with important possibilities. The two claims were located last, fall on a limber claim tiling, the jipplicuul for which abandoned his rlghtH when the time for making final proof arrived some weeks since. A number of assays were submitted to show that it was mine valuable for mineral than for timber, one of which went as high as s 8 1, !()(). There is a nbaft on the properly forty leet leep. A croHscut is run only a hIioiI distance to cut the ledge. When this was done water came in and has stopped work until a pump- A party of people interested in lug plain can no iiihiiiiiiiii. i mi the (Jeiser-llendryx properties, in the walls an well defined and six feet , , . ., , . iraohor I reek district, composed of "I'lH't. , On the dump there are seveial tons l H ic-Ini cutcl. and W. 1 Lit of ore, unlike any round oImiwIioio Uoaeh, of Savannah, Georgia, U.K. in eastern Oregon. It consists of De Wolfe, of New Brunswick, A. (5. porphyry mixed with an onyx like Hammer, of Spokane, A. II. Willetts, miarlz, in which are kidneys, , ,, ,, . . , , .... -, 1 . ' , . , ! of Portland, president ot the Copper- vary ing in sio from a pea to ii walnut, of lilmk. "ImiNh, t'linpuriiiiiMl by Harry Hen heavy metalic substance, and also a J dryx. Al Genlor, A. P. Smith and while, lustrous metal. The owners Otto llei locker, was up the Ciacker have been puzzled to know what the ' Creek way investigating yesterday, latter is, thinking lor a lime that ii JThe parly leturned last night, was svlvanito. Yesterday a sample I llesides the visit lo the various was submitted to Superintendent Kiichon, ot Hie smeller. He staled thai al the tlisl glance he would pro nouiice it eicouic pyillc., course, wouldn't be ptinlli ve, A. II. Willetts, of Portland, prosi dent of the Copporopolls, accom panied by Dr. Walter Techow, super intendent of the Mountain View. Captain C. S. IHchmond mid W. P. Laltoach, of Savannah, Cieoigia. and Mr. Willetts is going to make a general inspection of the property. He has not been theie since the rich ore body of immense size was en countered. The reports he has re ceived are of a most encouraging nature. It is probable, Mr. Willetts states, that a conclusion will be reached at an early date as to a re duction plant for the Copporopolis. ROADS BEING GOTTEN IN GOOD SHAPE ! properties the feature of the occasion i was Hie fact that Mr. I.a Uoaeh got i InM and Mr, Iticliinoiid had lt nerves Pete Knots, road supei visor, is getting the highways leading to Sumpter in good shape. He has a force of men at work on the Califor nia road and will have it in first class condition. Travelers say that the roads to the Gnlonuda, 10. and 10., Bonanza and (iranite are in better fix than ever be fore at this season of the year. Mr. Kstes himself lias been slightly in disposed for the past few days, but his crew is going ahead with the work. Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Brown re turned yesterday from the Burnt river country, where they have been for some weeks past. As has been bofore stated in Tho Minor, Mr. Brown went down there this time, de termined to find a blind ledge that has been diligently sought for for the past twenty years. He located it in an open cut, but where it is uncov ered the ore is not particularly rich, though it pans free gold everywhere. As near as any one can know any thing relative to the workings of Nature's underground laboratory, It is a certainty that this lodge supplies the rich placers below. that have boon mined for many years. The inevi table corollary is that tho vein has a rich shoot somewhere in that vicin ity. ,1. II will not try to find it this season, being sat islled with the knowledge that in future he can work on some intelligent basis; that his search for the proverbial needle in a hay stack is ended. Mr. Brown says that two shifts are now at work sinking on the Black Eagle, to prove that property at depth. This is the porphyry dyke of which so much has been said and written, where low grade or has boon quarried and run through it twenty stamp mill at a profit. The mill will soon be started no, after a shutdown for some months. He says that there is great activity over iu Mormou basin, from all he could hear, but was unable to inspect tho district personal)'. SUMMONS. Special excursion to fhe World's Fair. The Denver in connection and v Bio with the Craude, Missouri but of , shattered on the icluru trip Dy Harry without making tests. Thin, he said, goner ally carries gold values and tie queully voiy high- Johnny Arthur says that it looks like antimony pvrites, which also indicates the presence ot gold. The Mack and the bright substances are practically Hie same thing, in a slightly dilleretit form. Moth here give high values. Tint porphyry also carries from two to four dollais in gold. Average samples always pan a good string of colors. The owners of the Vaukee Girl have rigged up a primitive jigger, with which to separate the rock from the metnl and, it is repotted, make big wHges, There aie tents and cabins and dumps in every direction, and every prospector rcvtdiug iu the tin ill Pad tic, will run a series of Person ally Conducted Excursions to the llendryx's fast diiviug, In some way j jWiold's Fair during Juno. These or other La Uoach got separated from j excursions will lie run through to St. the party, and a posse ot ten, headed Louis without change of cars, making by Representative elect Smith, was 'short stops at principal points on organized to find him. He was I route. The first of these excursions locatetl on an outcrop of country rock will leave Portland dune 7th, and iu the hills near Bourne, wildly ex claiming, "Eureka. " He thought he had found the papa lode of the Cracker Creek district. After the return, it took Mr. llioh motid three hours to regain his equilibrium, which he lost on account ot lleudryx' fast driving from Bourne. He is still in a delicate condition. Some of those people are supposed to be Interested in the Cracker Crook Cold Mining company, operating the Victor, of which proposition Hanauer Is the visible head and financier. The annual meeting of the company was the second .luue 17th. The rate from Baker City will be SHO to St. Louis and return. Excursionists going via the Donovr A: Kio Grande have tho privilege of returning via a different ro4ite. This is the most pleasant way, as well us the most delightful route, to cross the continent. The fttops arranged give au opportunity ot visiting the arious points of in terest in and about Salt Lake City, Deliver and Kansas City. If you wish to accompany one of those ex cursions write at ouco to W. C. Mo Bride 1!M Third street, Portland, for sleeping cur rosorvutious. iu the Circuit Court of the Stato of Oregon for Baker County. Jodie Wallick, plaiiititf vs. Henry C. Wallok,. Defendant. To Henry C. Wallick, the above named Defendant. In the name uf the State of Oregon you are hereby required to appear an answer the complaint filed against you iu the above entitled causo on or before the 20th day of June, 1004, which is the last day of tho publica tion of the summons as prescribed by the order duly made and tiled by the Hon. W. W. Travillion, county judge of Baker County, Oregon, on the 1(! ll day of May, 1001, and it you fail so to appear and answer Paid com plaint the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief prayed for in the complaint tiled herein. And you are further notified by said order so made and filed on the 10th day of May, 1001, ordered that service of sum mons in this Miit lio made 'upon you by publication thereof in the Sumpter Miner, a weekly newspaper of Sump ter, Baker County, Oregon, and that the date of first publication thereof is May the IHth, 1004, and the ditto of the last publication thereof June the J0h, 1004. C. II. McCOLLOCH, Attorney for plaintiff. WANTED on Sulary.A man with light rig, who is well acquainted iu Baker aud Grant counties, to bundle a standard arotiole. Full aud wiuter Job for tho Bight party, muet give reference. Addres Box 71. Uuiou, Ore,.