MMIi''l'MMM''M''il'''M""" HHHHIHHHHHMHHHiHilHBBHHflHIHIHfllHflHHHHHHIMHHHHHHHHHHi VOL. VJ SUMPTER SMELTER IS AGAIN IN COMMISSION Ore Supply Ample and Plant Has Started For a Continuous Run. Thu Sumpter smoltur is iu com mission. It started thin morning. Thu banks of sulphurous smoke which overhung tho city at tin curly liour announced tho glad uuwh to the peoplo. It Iihb been known for boiiio tinio that tho plant was to be blown in soon, but Manager Fullor and Superintendent Kirohen are not of those who And it moot to do things in tho full blare of trumpets, so tho event came unannounced, tin heralded. The (Ire was lighted in the furnace at 5 o'clock this morning, it wan charged and the blast turned on at H. At 0 tho slag started to How. Such ia the uneveutful tale in brief of a matter of incalculable benefit to thu mining interests of the distriot. And thero has uot beeu a bitch or a bobble. The machinery, the plain, the.nen, 'everything, are going like a draft horse accustomed to the harness when he stretches his traoes for a long aud steady pull. Nor is the simile inappropriate, for the smelter is iu commission to stay. The ore supply uow on bauds, ap proximating 2,000 tons, and the daily receipts are a guarautee of this. The plant is goiug now and will perhaps for a short time at only half capacity. This, however, is only provisional uutil things take on thu shape of mature arraugemout. About thirty muu aru boiug em ployed, which forco will be larguly increased when the plaut is started full capacity. Tho briquettiug plant wish started up yesterday aud is now going iu fitio shapo. Everything is goiug after this manner not a singlo drawback so far. The smultur is pyritiu, in the popular acceptation of the term. A full description was given of it when the trial run was uiadu last winter. There is no necessity of it here. The main fact tho people of the dis triot want to learn is thut thu operation will bo continuous, as heretofore stated. Manager Fuller came bore on May 10, and Superintendent Kirohen arrived on the 29tb of tho same mouth. Muob credit is due them. They have ceaselessly em SUMPTER, OREGON, ployed their time in visiting the minus of thu disrtict and contracting for ore, Today thu results appeared. Mr. Fuller says ho has met with tint moat cordial support from tho min lug men of tho camp. They have lent their aid to tho institution and exerted themselves to bring iu their products. Aud the hope is oxpressod by everybody that there will bo no lettting up in this direction, that the same aid 'and support will continue. Aud this, too. is ovidou, for new contracts are ooing made every day. Within the last week four new onus were added to the already long list, which will increase the receipts at least thirty per cent. Three other propei ties started shipping which were not counted on till spring. Ho iutorests are pulling together. And it is good. As stated it is hardly necessary at this juncture to go into a desariptiou of the plant, or its histoiy. These are well known aud have been given repeatedly. The enterprise is a Killeu, Warner, Stewart flotation, aud is numbered among the com pany's many successes in the camp. It-i position is now assured beyoiid question aud the reumptiou is hailed with dulight. McLEOD-MADDERN DRILL MEET A GO The much talked of and much printed siuglu drilliug cniiteHt meet, between William Madderu, of the Virtue, aud I). M. McLeod, of thu Overland, tho winner of the Fourth of July singles and the llonriio straightaway yesterday, has assumed a status which leaves litttle doubt as to its materialization. Mr. McLeod came to town today. Mr. Maiidern is here also, aud so is his bacrfer, lieu Wood, of liaker. Mr. Wood today placed f00 iu thu Fisrl National, which is the amount to be wagered per side, aud Mr. Mc Leod put up a $100 forteit, also iu the First National, that the stake will be covered, aud that ou his part SEPTEMBER 7, 1901 theio will tie no balk to the ongago meut. Articles of agreement will bo signed tonight. It is uot. known yet where tho contest will occur. Sumpter, lloruuo and liaker are tho favored points, howevur. The place which has the farthest reach iu thu shapo of a purse, it is stated, will bring down the persimmon. The bar to Sumpter, has beeu raised aud if Supmter does the cash act properly the moot is hers. No time has beeu decided upon, but. the talk is that the thing will bu pulled oil within two weeks. Delluite arrangements are to lie made tonihgt. THINKS MOUNTAIN VIEW MINE IS A BIG THING L. (1. Koady, of Portland, secre tary of the New York Consolidated, located in the Uroouhorns, bis at torney, H. K. Sargent, also of Port laud, who arrived in town a day or so ago 011 mattteiH connected with tho company, left this morning for the property. They were joined on the train by Carroll K. Zilly, vlco president of the lrwin-llodsou Print ing company, of Portland, and director in the New York Coin-oil-dated Yesterday Messrs, Koady and Sargent visited tho Mountain View. Mr. Koady was formerly interested in this property. The development, be says, has beeu amazing and he thinks it one of the big'proerbios of the district. The new mill, it ia thought, will bo running within thirty days. NEW SUPERINTENDENT TOR THE STANDARD MINE Zoeth Houser, who has for some time boon superintendent of the Staudaid, lias resigned his com mission on account of tho press ot other duties, andN. F. Heath, formerly superintendent of the Cracker Sum mit has been appointed in his stead. . Mr. ileum, is a wen Known mine superintendent having had years of experience iu Colorado. He left yes terday to auHiime active superintend ence of the property. Mi. I louder will perhaps remain iu the (joint- burg district for awhile looking after ' other intoro&ts, iiefore returning toj i Ills home iu Pendleton. ! May Queen Mill (joint). John Thomson, manager of tj: Mi.v Queen, came iu from the miiut uM., on iiih way iu niiKur Jiiy, i.u ...m, i.i . i .- Mi . mi which was started a few days ago, is goiug iu from Hue shape, aud direct ive and systematic development work is proceeding. NO. & PROMINENT PORTLAND ' PEOPLE IN SUMPTER; Judge II. M. Cako, of Portland,, president of thu Mountain View Min ing company, also president of thu Portland Commercial club, with Walter White, of Portland, inter ested iu thu Mountain View, arrived in town this morning and went out; to the mining property. Judge Cake attended a meeting or thu Oregon Development League in. liaker City yesterday. Judge Cake, as president of tho Portland Com mercial club, waa tho promoter of this organization. With him from Portland came to linker, L. 10. Smith, president, of thu League, Thomas Hloherdson, secretary; A. L. Craige, general O. H. . N. passenger agent aud Mr. Stovouaou, of thu Statu Press association. Judge Cake is greatly pleased with the turn League matters are faking. Ho says: "Wo had a most enthusiast ia meeting in linker City, and tho enterprise met with entire approval. It is under way now and we con fidently expect good results. It la the purpose to organize u league In Sumpter in the near future " Judge Cake, while hla roaldonou in Portland may militate against him to some extent, is a mining man, aud at the head of one of the prom inent Sumpter districts properties. He knows what mining la in eastorii Oregon, and. the hay press and oboes sentiment, so prevalent in Portland, does not seem to have influenced him in the least, as far as mining la con cerned. He ia wide awake to thft situation. J. Frank Watson, president of tho Merchants' National Hank of Port land, aud president of the Keystoun Mining aud Milling company, mime iu ou the train this afternoon, re turning from Canyon City, whom he was interested in the Keystone F(iiity litigation. As stated else where, the case has been postponed' till September Uti. Mr. Watson's company Iiih owned the Keystone mine since IHHti A lioml was taken ou it, however, some time ago by the (JoiSerHoudryx company, but work ban been stopped pending clearing of title. Mr. Watson will remain over till toiiKiri'w to confer with the First. National bank, which iustitiiiou ia ooncspoiiilout of the Merchants'' National of Portland. i S. II. Norton, manager ot the Jiltm Mountain (Sold Mining company, left, today for his old home at Ashland, Kentucky, aud to attend the St. Louis fair en routo. Mr. Norton will return iu the spring and resume work. ..