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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1904)
K r n ? ?8? VOL. VI. SUMPTER, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 14, 1904 NO. AT BOURNE, SEPT. 29, FOR $1000 IN GOLD McLeod-Maddern Drilling Contest Will Take Place in the Town at the Head of the Gulch. The mouey fur the MoLoori-Maddern siugloband drilling contest is up, Ibe Uintah will uotno off at Bourne, new articles of agreement havo been sigued, Cotnmodoro (.3 ray la happy aa a boy with a pair of red top boots, Hen Wood feola bimaelf $500 richer, Hilly Maddern Iiiih taken a biitb, everything is lovely and the goose banks high. Maddern, who bails from the Virtue in i lie, and Wood, hie backer, cumu up from linker this morning in re Hponae to a telepbono request from Commodore Cray, who ia MoLeod 's backer. They disouHsed the objec tionable pbraaoology iu the old agree ment, whiub waa given iu yeaterdaya' Miner, and after a hoap of oultus wahwah, sigued new articlos and everybody took a drink, except Maddern, who ia iu training, and (iiay, who ia on tho water wagon. Tom Duuphy holds tho 81,000 stake money, and will pay it over to the winer. Ah related iu laat oven lug's Miner, Onmmodore Cray do poaited with Duuphy liiHt uighi 8400 in coin of the realm, which, with tho $100 forfeit money already put up by MoLeod laat week, and the 8.100 depniatud in the First National bank of Supmtor by Wooda at the samo time, uiakea up the 81,00 purao. Tho now artiuloa of agrueiueut do not differ materially from tho old onus, except iu the matter of for foit. Tho contract siguod today reads aa folelwi: "Thia agieemont mado and entered iuto this lUth day of September 1004, ny mid botweeu Hon Wooda, of Haker City, representing W. T. Maddern, and Tom C. Gray, ropre aeutiug M. D. MoLeed: Witueaaeth that a aingle-baudod drilling con test shall take place betweou said Maddern and said MoLeod to be held iu the town of Hoiirue. "This contest is for a purse of 1500 ou each side, which amount of 91000 is at pieeaut iu the bauds of T. II. Duuphy, official Uakeholder, who will pay over to the winner or bis representative the said sum of 81,000 on the order of tho judgca whoHo decision shall lie Until. "This contest ia to be single handed, aud lime of drilling not to exceed fifteen inluute steel to be octagonal aud not o-s than three quarters of an inch. No awedgiug to bo allowed. Numhci of pieces not to ox cede fifteen. Hammer shall bo no heavier than lour pounds. The bole ia to be a straight down bole. I'liicli man ia to bo allowed a water tender, a time keeper, and a coach, each of these to be picked by bimaelf or his representative. Each man will select one judge, aud the judgea will jointly dedde ou a third. The three judge tire to de cide on one man who is to get as official time-keeper. "The an id contest to take place ou Thursday, September UJUh, 1001 at 2 p m. Hoiune. "In the event of sickness or ac cident to either of the said contest ants, properly authenticated by a doctor's certificate, there shall lie no forfeit of the stake money, aud fur ther arrangements can be arranged ou eveut ot the uon-appoiiince of either of the contestants at the time aud place settled upon, excepting as above stated, ho shall forfeit to the man appearing the entile sum of 81,000. "In witness wherefore tho said parties have here unto set their bauds and seal in duplicate, this l!tth day of .September, 1001. "HEN WOOD, "Hepresentiug W. T. Maddern. "TOM C. GKAY, "Kepreaontiug M. 1). McLoud. "Signed iu -presence of J. F. Sheltou, Otto Ilerlooker." The match will be pulled oft at Hourno, the enterprising citizen's of which towu have subscribed 8100, W. H. McCarty, who is iu town today as official representative of the camp at the head of the gulch, uiet with Cray, Wood aud Maddern this morning. "We have dug up 81.10 as au offer for the match, " be said, "but it will cost at least 8fl0 to get the rock iu position." "If you'll give us 8100 in cash you cau have tho match, so far aa 1 am concerned, " said Wood. "That nilts me, "said Gray. "Here too," said Maddern. It was so arranged. "About the rook," said Gray. "My man will not drill in the one used Labor Day." " "Why not?" demanded Maddern, "your man has drilled it once and has the advantage." "Well, wo don't want it;" said Gray. "Wo want, a granite boulder --new one elevated ou a platform." "All right,' said Maddern. "Anything suits me." Hourno will select, the rock, mount it, nod four days hefoie the match will turn it over to tho con testants for inspection. Maddern, after seeing everything arranged, started ou foot up the canyon toward Hourno. "I'm not broke," ho explaiued. "I can alt'ord to hire a rig or ride on the stage. Hut I'm iu traiuiug, so here goes. Good bye." Hon Wood, just before Stakeholder Duuphy locked up the 81,000 in his office safe, ald to Gray: "Take a long look at it, Tom; its the last time you'll over see it. And here's a couple of hundred more if any man iu the crowd possesses McLend money." Coiiimodoio Gray said: "MoLeod will win. I'm glad tho thing Is at last arranged." SATISFACTORY TtST RUN AT MAY QUEEN lohu Thomson, manager of the May Queen and late receiver ot tho Hod liny, ciimo in from Ibe Inrmor properly this aftornoii aud left for Haker City to return Monday. Mr. TIiouihoii says (ho test, run of the l()stamd mill at the May Queou mine is proving highly satisfactory aud that, a olaouup will be made soon. The mill will probably bo put iu continuous operation at. au early dale. Sumptcr-Bournc Survey Finished. I. A. Green, chief engineer of tho Sumpter-Hourno railway, returned to his home in Lincoln, Neb., this afternoon, lie has completed a sur vey of the proposed liu aud iu now returning to render a rupurf and submit estimates. Whlje. Mr. Green ia diplomatically reticent reuardiuu the nature of his icport to he mad" to . his priucipals, -vho let full a i v stutemeuts while in conversation mui a Mluer man which Impels a con clusion that construction work on the proposed line will undoubtedly begiu this fall. THIS THE BEST CAMP HE HAS EVER SEEN . Forth), sccrotay of the Over land Mining company, left thia' afternoon for bis bonie tt) Mine apolis. Heforo leaving hiv ' said to a Mluer representative: "I inspected the Cable 'Cove dis trict pretty thoroughly, okir own property, of course, more especially. 1 also vhitod several of the big mines on the Cracker Creek mother lode, and 1 wish to say that I am favorably Impressed. I have been to many camps before, aa far north as tho Arctic circle, and I have not before seen one with which I havo boon so well pleased; one that, holds out such onoouragomont for a pros perous aud permanent future. "So far as the Overland Is con cerned, we will not stop work a day. It is a good property and we artv going to rush it to the producing stage just aa'quirtKry'-ittf possible, At first I felt a little sore on our man ager, Mr. Hain, because he didn't send us roporta as eiicouiaglng aa the conditions warranted; but since 1 have thought the matter over, I have come to hoi love his business," that he knows SETTLE DIFFERENCES BY ARBITRATION Trouble is apparently brewing be tween the New York mine and tho owners of the llubmoldt. If seems that there is a coiftlict. of npiifiou lis to boundary lines. L. V. Keady, secretary of the New York Consoli dated Mining company, wIioho homo is iu Portland, and M. K. Sargeaut, his attorney, who recently visited the Greenhorn properties of the two companies, have returned to the Webfoot metropolis imbued with tho idea that all difficulties will be aimcably arranged by arbitration, thus preventing the necessity of carrviug the matter iuto court. Ac cording to the Portland Telegram, Attorney Ablert Allen, of the For tune company, owning the Hum boldt, wont over Ibe disputed ground with him, accompanied by engineers of both cnmpanieH, The Telegram says that there is every remon to anticipate au adjustment of differences without a recourse to law. Lew Walker, the mining man, departed this afternoon for Mountain City, Nevada, from which1 latter I point he will journey overland to the new bouauazlaiiri. Mr. Walker waa attracted by letters from Mike Maboney and Geoige Probaseo, who are ou the ground and who enthuse a whole lot. Mr. Walker's stay will be iudeufluite. ,1' ' 00 "Xt'f Tuaaf-