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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1904)
THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, September 28, 1904 f The SumDter Miner 1'UHI.IMIIil) HVHHY WHDNIiSDAV IIV J. V. CONNIU.I.A I ntcred lit tlif postofflce In Sumpter, Oregon, tor Mrivnlsslon through the mulls s second class ITAltlM MJHSCMII'TION PATHS Onr Yfiir Six Months .., '-5 ALWAYS IN ADVANCI!. Liiwhuu'h October tiHtu 1 1 muii t of Fronziod Finance" brlHtloH with 4il iiITh. if ho makes good, hoiiio illicitly interesting reading mattur Ih in Htoru for Ihu American public JJtit hn ih 11 long (lino getting to tho moat of IiIh ntory. Tho ourrroiit ohaptor roasts "Gas" Addloks, hut ho tlnoHti't Hiiy anything uioiinor iihout that notorioiiH scamp thtiii Iiiih boon eaid hundred t of tlmt'H b'lfore, and KB id much hotter. If ho doesn't pre sent hlHCHHo hood, thoHowho me read ing hlH Htuir with in u oh impatiout in terest will believe that ho Ih faking. J. (J. Hlgolow, of Mllwaukoo, iu a poeah hoforo tho American Hankers .nnHoclutlou, hold lant wook iu Now York, expressed tho holiof that tho ipowoful combinations of capital usually designated iih triiHtH, will iu future provont widespread linauoliil ipanloH, (null iih tluiHo of 1H7II and ,1 H1KL Hlgolow h either conversing through IiIh now illk hat, or cIho Ih making "con talk," with tho deliberate purpoHo to doolvo TIiIh dlHtiHtroiiH litiHinoHH dopros alon of '!)!! wiih designated thou and Ih holiovod today to havo lioou a "bankers panic," brought iihout hy it powerful money triiHt tor tho purpoHo of tiiakiiiK i clean up; a foreclosure on securities hold iih collateral for Ioiiiih. Tho hiiiiio interests will turn tho hiiiiio trick twain, if tho oppor tunity pi'OHOIltH itself, iih it will periodically uudor our pronont llnaunlal nyHtoin. Tho only pro vont ivo for thttHo paiilon Ih ror tho government not bankers to Ihhiio sulllolont legal tender moil y mi Wllioll to IrilUHIICt tho business of thin country, which would provont hankers from working a comer on cuircucy. Tho government can never issue enough legal tender for thin purpoHo ho long iih II Ih based on gold alone. And that Initio iih laick to tho old, original propoHition, which can not ho touched upon here -for the silver question Ih wild to he dead and Holf constituted authorities havo IhhuoiI tho edict that it in tiad form to discuss that subject in good Hocioty. VtiHt amusement Iiiih heeu caiiHed liy the iHihlication ot an "open con Cession" hv the editor of a monthly paper posing iih a llnaucial authority. The periodical Iiiih heeu freely circulated outHlde of New York tduco IiihI June and recently wiih barred from tho mailn. Postal in upeoturs weie iiuatile to tlud the place of puhlicaliuii to learn who wan responsible for the paper. The business addioss wiih found to he a llverv htatile iu WmhIiI tintnu and the paper Ih suppiiM'd to have been printed here. In the confession the editor hays that having held IiIh position three uioutliH ami being ahout to retire, IiIh ooiikoIoiioo implied liim to ntate: "I have heeu in charge of this publication iu the Intrust of otic of the moot desperate gangs of HwiudlciH and thieves that Iiih over infoHled any country. Outbldo of thin Htatemeot no word of truth Iiiih i'vcr appeared iu those column. ' Upright and honest business men, iih woll iih straightforward and pros poroiiH corporatiotiH, havo beon maliciously attacked with tho hoIo idea that nmnoy ii(lit ho influenced from llioin to the coffers of tho gang that Iiiih given me employment. ".Some of Hioho who havo huuti nt taukod havo been ruined thereby and many thouHiuidH of dollars liavo lioon lost hy Hinall investors iih a result 1 Tho editor further declares tho HriiH he recommended wore iratidu : lout and country people wore thore hy defrauded of thousands of dollars. ItiHt why IIiIh incident should cause "vast amazement" Ih a puz.lo. ThoiiHiindH of "newspapers" exist solely upon hiicIi grafts iih that to which tho Now York editor eon foHHOH. llundrodH of Hocallod fltitiucial paperH tho higher in rating tho hotter- blackmail tho public hy insisting upon paid HdvortiHomoutH in return for editorial otidorHoinent. Particularly among mining jouriiHlH Ih thin lort of thing common. Not all mining journals follow thin lino of "business," but scores of publicatloiiH, printod in the outward form and garb of legitimate cIhrh journals, aro iu realty published by firms of pro motors wherein the boldoHt lion are printed, and wherein the editors, like tho Holf-oonfossed awiudlor of New York, proatitutea his talouta and JIoh aa well as steals. "ViiHt amaeiiifiit " mav bo oroatod by tho fact that those thlnH aro ho, but "viiHt amazement" wore a heap hotter now than a rilled pockothook lator on. A tramp harbor struck lioldflold, Nevada, the other day, looking iih seedy iih ii genuine hobo. A week lator ho wiih noticed to ho woll droHsod mid sporting a gold-headed cane. Asked how ho did it, he replied that, ho had saved tho trim uiingH from tho miner's hair and found enough loose gold iu thorn to give him his out tit. A cut ions tlud wiih made on the top of tho dies of tho ton stamp mill of tho Climax Cold Mining company, Ariozna, when a stop was made for repaiiH. Several tlatoued pieces of gold, weighing over an ounce, wore discovered adhering to the face of the ditH. In some manner the particloH of gold got an anchor on tho die, and continual pounding and twisting of the shoes added to their hulk. They woio curious looking uugggetH 1 and will he kept iih specimens. COUPLE OF SUMPTER BOOSTERS ABROAD Now, hero Ih a couple of specimens of the right kind of stutt. Two citizens of .Sumpter weie in linker City last night and both ot them kindly suiimitted to interviews; both told the truth and said tiiat this mining district is all right, all right. This I; I lit) of talk is to be commended; the other kind deserves tar and feathers: Tho Democrat says : Mr. James 11. Howard, of tho First National Hank of Sumpter, and manager of tho liolcouda mine, who arrived iu tho city yestorday, had the pleasant news to impart to a re porter that business iu upper camps is improving on a substantial basis and that several merchants are doub ling their stocks of goodi. Mining all through tho various districts has been and is in a healthy couditiou. Tho properties that havo been iu litigation and undor process of re organization, will boou bo iu opera tion again, while the old producer aro stolidly sending iu to the mint their gold bullion. "Tho new smeltor at Sumpter which blew iu its furnaces about a week ago, Ib running day and night on fine oro, and haa ore contracted ahead for several month . That one plant is a big thing for Sumpter alone. Tho oxtoualon of tho Sump ter Valloy railway Is another actor in tho advancement of ojr country. Cheap transportation will bring tho ores at a lively rate, and whou you got a railroad through to tho Sovoti Dovilu, look out for big things. 1 am glad to learn tboro Ib a prospect of building iu tho near future." "Tho pay rolls iu tho upper camp are much larger thau we get oredit for," said W. C. Calder, the Sump ter real ostato and mining man, who arrived in linker City yesterday with Beveral members of au eastern syndicate, whom he brought with him from the east several weeks ago. "You can understand I have been very busy during the last five weeks, having been iu my office only oue or two evoulugs, aftor au absence iu the east of five mouths. We have spout all of our time iu the hills, havo enjoyed the time aud have done bomo bufliueBS. Mr Henry L. Cameron, of Albauy, Now York, who is with mo and who Ih returning eaat tonight, is tho hoad of the syndicate that is making investments iu the upper camps. Wo visited tho Greon horn, Susanvlllo, Quartzburg, Uourno aud Cable Cove districts. Thoy made sovoral investments iu valuablo mining proportolB aud mado the first payment lu cash. For prudential reasons it Ih not best to stato now just what those properties are. They also purchased several blocks of line yellow pine timbor lauds iu the Sumpter district. Within the next woek or ten days I expect to return oast, whore 1 will spend tho winter. You can add that the Sumpter uciuiug camps are growing aud that gouoral business Ih on tho improve." AMERIGAN MINERS IN THE ORIENT N. Harry Whittlesey, for threo years the cyanido mill manager of tho Oriental Consolidated Mining company, at Woinau, Korea, which properties ilgured in the early stago of tho present HusHian-Japauoso war, has givieu out an interview regarding the properties on his rot urn to his homo at Spokane. "The Oriental Consolidated Min ing company," said Mr. Whlttlosoy, "is the company which owns tho concessions granted by the Korean uoverumout to Loiuh Hunt. Thero weie threo concessions issued about the same time-to a (.iormau, au Fiiglishmaii aud au American Mr. Hunt's company, ami tho Anieri- j can ii the only oue that has touched the period of successtul operation. "The company h operating live American-made stamp mills, scatter ed over lifil) square miles of territory, iu which aro 2U0 stamps, twenty additional stamps being added to oue of the mills. "Tho cyanide plaut I was iu charge of was located neat two stamp millsj ono of forty, tho other of eighty stamps, tho couceutrates of both mills being treated at tho cyanide works, which has a capacity of eighty tonB each twenty-four hours. "All tho superintendents and fore men iu tho mines and mills are Amoricaus, tho miners aud luborerB about tho mills being Chinese and Koreans, a few Japanese beiug employed in semi-skilled labor, as blacksmithu, carpenters, tlmbermeu and llko employomeuts. The wages of miners aud laborers aro twenty ilvo eonts a day, boiug about double tho wages paid iu ordinary work conducted by Koreans or Japuuose. "Americau mothods prevail in all departments of mining and miiliug, except machine drills aro not used in the miueB, experience having Bhown that drilling by hand is cheaper. "Generally tho mines are large flsBure veiuB iu granite, the vein filling being of quartz, carrying some native gold, the larger portion of the gold values beiug combined with the base motalB iron, lead and zinc. Fruo vauuers are used in the mills for concentration, and the con centrates are easily ammeuable to the ordinary cyanide process, toe precipitation being effected with zinc shavings. "The veins aie wide, from ten to twenty-five feet, and the ore carries an average of 15 a ton in gold. The working costs of mh.ing and milling are about 12.50 a ton, leaving a very satisfactory profit, and as the company mines and mills upward of '20,000 tons of ore each, month, the earniug capacity of the property Jb very large "A depth of 1,000 feet has been reached iu ono of the mines. The goueral manager of tho company is George W. PerkinB, of New York, the resideut manager boiug H. F. Mcaerve. "Up to the time that Mr. Hunt oommeuced the develpmont of tho proportiso embraced within his onn cessiou, abo'it six years ago, the Koroaus were totally ignorant of modem mining methods, their own being unique, but effentivo. The mines in the district whore 1 was located had been worked by tho Koreans for fifty years or more, and I was able to observe thoir mothods. "Thoy chiefly used au iron bar and wedgoB, or gad, in extracting tho oro. Tho higher grado portions of tho oro wero thou selected and placed on a large flat rook, upon which was a largo granito boulder. To the sides of tho boulder polos wore fastened, tho ends of which would be griiBped by tho oporators, who would rook tho boulder over tho ore, thin reduoiug it to pulp to pass through a thirty-mesh screen. This pulp would then bo pounded by hand in largo woodeu bowls. Tho concen trates would also bo saved and aud ro-grouud hotwoon two Hat stones aud again panned, by which meaus u largo percentage of tho gold would be saved. "Tho mountains in tho oouutry whoro tho mines are located rise to a height of 1,000 to 1,200 foot aud aro deeply chnnueled by water courses. They aro heavily timbered with a good quality of oak that is used for fuel and mine timbering. Tho climato is similar to that of east, orn Washington, tho wluters being perhaps a littlo more sevoro." More Columbia Machinery. Threo carloads of machinery, being equipmout for tho enlargement of the Columbia mill, arrived iu Sumpter this moruiug, aud i await ing trans-shipment to the hills. The Gold Coin (Cracker Creek) compressor is working. rK -wmftft-;; fyrfi-jareh ix-fvt ycf 'V"m';v' lift. 2