THE SUMPTER MINER
Wednesday, October 26 1904
The Sumpter Miner
IMJHUSHUI) BVKPV WHDNESDAV HV
J. W. CONNEI.I.A
Lntered at the poitofflce In Sumpter. Oregon, fur
lran.mllun through the malls at second clan
matter
SUHSOkll'TION MATPS
One Yr.ir ..... $2.00
Six Month ,. ,, t.75
ALWAVS IN ADVANCE,
Accotding Id a prims dispatch from
Kmii I'ViiiiuIhuc) TIioiiihh W. Lawaon, of
Huston, ownnr of vast mining prop
ortlo in Shasla county, Ih tlio sub
juut nl 1111 open letter written by onu
of IiIh associates mid follow tiiinu
ownurH, C J), (ialvln, formurly of
ShiiHtu county, hut now of HoHtou.
Oalvin, in tint alleged exposure,
1IC0UH0H LhWHOII Of IJI lltJ 1 fllllHt loU Of
tho Trinity Copper company's atnok
iiy methods exactly Himiliir to tlios.)
for which Liiwhoii Ih denouncing the
Standard Oil magnates in tho series of
nrticloa publishing untlor tho tillo
of "Frenzied Finance."
Now acmes 0110 Anthony Mohr unci
threatens to secede with tho Hiunptur
branch of tho Htuto MinorH' asHuoia
lion. And hooaiiHo of tho Portland
hog I It would huuiii (hut Mr. Mohr
Hlinuld mho tliMt tho puth of Sumpter
Ih iioiio too bright with tho rayH of
fortune mid thul it (Ioiih not now need
to ho further secluded. How uiiiuh
can Mr. Mohr mid IiIh branch hurt
Portland? How much can Portland
help tho branch mid Its flnltl? Tho
iiiiHwer to these two quo-itl'mis Hhould
loud Mr. Mohr from tho shadow of
tho sulks. (Irant (Jotinty Nowh.
Thn itliovo mid h long ooluinii
morn of tho hiiiiio kind wiih called
forth hy a tdory published in Tho
Minor, in whinh Anthony Molir wiih
quoted iih expressing tho opinion that
eastern Oregon in playliiK tho
"sucker, " in playing second llddlo to
tho I'ortluiid Mining association.
Tho News, howovor, has formed an
entirely orronooiiH conception of tho
gentleman's iiiotivo. Ho had no
Idoa of trying to injnrti Portland;
ho wiih not "knocking." To tho
News' query uf "how miioh can
I'ort IhiiiI holp tho branch and i Ih
Mold If" Tim Miner answers that no ;
one kniws how much It can or could
help thin dhtriot, but that it has
never helped it In the remotest
manner, Ih a huio thing. That tt
never will in equally a certainty, if
one judge thn future by the past.
The purpose of Portland operators iu
organizing the bianch associations
with to get their oudnrHomoiit for the
o-Jtiihllsliiiiout theie of the govern
meut ahiiiy oltlce, which by right be
Jongs to oiiHtoru Oregon, The iiu
pudeiice of the scheme was irritat
i ugly olteusive.
In compiling a "llihllngraphy and
Index ol North American (loology,
Paleontology, Petrology, and Min
era logy for tint Vear KHKl," Fret!
Houghton WeekH, of the United
States (ieologicui Survey, has done a
work that will be of great value to
the student who desires to keep pace
with the progiesH o( science. It will
nerve him as a guide to the latest
knowledge of the subjects which it
covers.
The bibliography consists of full
titles of separate papers, arranged
alphabetically by author's names, an
abbreviated inference to the publlca
tiou iu which the paper is printed,
and a brief description of thu con
tents. Each paper is numbered for
index reference.
The indox Ib preceded by a classi
fied key, in which aio shown the
subject headings, their Bubdlvlaioua
and arrangement. Reference la made
in each entry by author's uamo and
number of article in the bibliography.
Thin ia the latest of a Her lea of
annual biblioj raphioa prepared aololy
from publicatioiiB received by the
library of tho United States Geo
logical Survey. On Jauuary 1, IDOH,
Mr. WeekH wiih placed iu charge of
the Survey library and began to make
an effort to procure tho publications
which were not uoticed in tho
bibliographies of previous years.
Mnnv of theso aro noted iu the
eruoront bibliography, which ia
listen among tho Survey's publica
tions iih Hullotiu No. 210. John M
Nicklea assisted Mr. Weeks iu the
compilation uf tho work. It is
published for giutuitous distribution,
and may be obtained on applying to
the Director of the United States
Geological Survey, Washington, D.C.
It Ih reported that .Japan has at
this time diHCoveied a new gold Held,
estimated to contain gfiOO. 000,000
gold, which can bo recovered at tho
rate of $5,000,000 yearly. The Jap
anese section iu tho Palace of Minos
and Metalurgy at the Louisiana
Purchase exposition is a sufllcieut
argument as to tho skill of theae
artisans of the Occident iu mining
and metallurgy, and if profitable
Melds of gold have been discovered
on the Japanese inlands, the Japanese
thomoslovH can be depended upon to
develop and exploit them fully and
according to the best modern
practice. Such a discovery may be
of great moment to Japan, but it
haidly olfers much for an outsider,
either iu the way of furnishing
machinery, or capital, or acquliiug
an interest by location or uurohaso.
A suit designed to work the
forfeiture of the charters of 12,000
corporations, located in every stain
iu tho Union, Iiiih been brought iu
the circuit court of Charleston, WohI
Virginia, by tho attorney general of
that Htate. It was instituted hooatiHo
of the alleged falluie by tho cor
poratious to make reports and appoint
statutory attorneys, as required by
law. A itoim of protests Iiiih arisen
and protest! of the alfected corpora
lions Iu other states are being daily
,ml i tno attorney genral's otllco.
10. K. Kody, assistant district at
toruey, who has charge of the suits,
declares he will prosecute the cor
porations. There is only one way in
which thobo corporations can now
save thorns! vos, according to the
iihsistaut attorney general, and that
Is by paying a largo fee for settle
ment. The general trend of opinion,
however, Ih not to settle. The at
torney general has granted the cor
poratious until the next term of
court to save themselves. Should he
obtain judgment on that date the
law is plain that a forfeituie of
charter will take place.
The Hod Hoy was incorporated
uudei the laws of Wmt Virginia, but
since the reorgauiatiou the new
company got its charter from New
Jersey. It looks as if the former
state were working a scheme to
"shake down" outside companies.
There are several West Virginia cor
porations that own Oregon mines.
Captain Kompf, of the
Smauville
district, roasts uregon and "ex
prets" through the Grant Couuty
News because he can't sell a proao
pect, that he admits himself to be a
world beater. Some time ago tho
Captain had much to say about hj
sylvanite Mud that proved to bo
antimony.
ME4NING OF THE
WORD "MINERAL
At times serious disputes arise
between the adverse claimauta of a
mining location aa to the auflloieucy
of the discovery. Aa to the character
of rock iu a discovery the statutes
are silent, tho only requirement
being "mineral bearing rock In
place." Tho mineral bearing rock
need not uecessarily be a vein or a
deposit of dellnite ahape, size or
form, but must be mineral bearing.
Nut infrequently valuable mineral
gold or silver, or copper, lead or
zinc sulphide may occur in payablo
quantity iu ono portion of a rook,
when auother portion of the same
maf-s, a short distance away, may be
commercially worthless or actually
destitute of metallic minorala, or
their sulphides, or of the secondary
products of their oxidation.
The words of tho atatuto are,
"volns or lodes of quartz or other
rook in place." What constitutes a
lodo ia a somewhat indefinite prop
osition, but it ia aa often determined
by commercial aa by goological
considerations. Hy "In placo" ia
meant iu its original position and
not in detached pieces in tho
alluvial, or in a tock alido on the
side of the mountain.
Payable mineral ia not couliuod
iu Ita occurrence to quartz. It ia
ofteu found iu limestone, iu ahale,
sand stone and various eruptive and
intrusive and motamorphiu rocks.
Not infrequently the mineral
bearing rock or oro is slmiilar iu
appoarauce to the barren rock which
surrounds it, and the rock only
ceases to bo considered ore wheu it
no longer pays for ita extraction and
treatment.
It ia for tills reason that the
phrase "or other rock in place" win
introduced Into the statute. There
ia nothing ambiguous in tho ex
pression "rock iu place." Every
class of claims that may be classed as
a vein, or lode, may be patouted
under the laws as a vein or lode of
rock in place. This class of mineral
lauds contemplates all of those where
iu the mineral is contained in volns,
whether fissure or gash veins, or auy
of tho several other forma of mineral
dlspostition. Miners not infre
quently claim that a newly dis
covered vein is not "in place," but
lias supped down mo iiioumaiu or
Hi 1 Initio from some other claim.
This Is rarely the case, and usually
there would be no ditllculty for a
geologist to piove to the satisfaction
of the most skeptical that nothing
of thu sort had ever occurred.
The word "miuuial" iih applied to
veins iu the statutes has a somowhat
diifereut significance than wheu used
otherwise for all rocks, whether
metal bearing or not, are recognized
as being composed of one or more
minerals. Minerals, iu tho mining
statutes, has a more reatriuted
meaning, and ia understood to imply
an ore or mineral substance having a
commercial value. A gold bsariug
rock ia properly mineral, and grauite
has been determined by the courts to
be mineral. A valid "discovery"
of mineral belug rock in place"
may be made and a claim takeu
wherever mineral cau be found on
tho unoccupied lands of the Uuited
States, and the courts havo never
insisted that mineral must be fouud
having a commercial value, Hi either
quality or quantity. This is left to
the judgemout of the locator, who
la presumed to know whether or not
tho "prospect" Is sufficiently good
to locate and develop under the
requirements of the law. A statute
that required payable ore in tight
before a valid location could be made
would make many mining locations
impossible.
Judge Hawley, in the case of
Urook vs. Justice M. Co., 58 Fed.,
10G, 124, said: "Logically carried
out, it would prohibit a miner from
making any valid location until he
had fully demonstrated that the
vein or lodo, of quartz, or other
rook in place, bearing gold or silver,
which ho bad discovered, would pay
all the exneuaes of removing, crush
ing and reducing tho or and leave a
profit to the owuer. If this view
should be sustained, it would lead to
absurd, injurious and unjust re
sults." Mining aud Scientific Press.
Work at the Oregon King.
T. S. Konnorly came up from
Baker City this morning, drove out
to tho Oregon King mine, on Silver
creek, and returned in time to take
the afternoon train to the couuty
aoat. "We are getting out timbora
aud cordwood and erecting build
ings for all winter's work at the
Oroaon King." ho said ton Miner
uiau. "Tho 200-foot tunnel, drlvou
by a former mauagomout, out a vein
of good or, which 1 will shortly
sort aud ship to Sumpter's smelter."
Resume Work at Golden Wizard.
J. M. McPhee loft this afternoon
for Michigan, on tolographlc in
structions from tho heavy stock
holders in tho Golden Wizard. It ia
supposed that the warring factions
have finally gotten together and work
will be ro9iirued on tho property at
an early day. Mr. McPhee says he
will stay thore two days and then
hurry home, oxpecting to be back in
two woeka at the outside, aud then
push the tiling along.
The tiro in
Haisloy-Elkbnru
the shaft of the
mine, reported in
Friday 'h Miner, originated from a
clogged pipe leading from the hoist
ing plant to the sixty foot level.
Manager Ed W. Fields, iu attempting
to quonoh the tlamoa, was temporarily
overcome The mine is again in
operation.
W. C. Drowloy, the Haker City
lawyor, who ia secretary of the Uaker
City-Oregon Woudor Electric Rail
way aud Improvement compauy,
popularly known as the Honta road,
came up from Hakor City on legal
buisuess this morning. Ho says that
Major Houta ia still in Now York,
financing the road
Fiup priuting ot the Miner office.
TIMER IANI, ACT JUNECS. 1171. -NOTICE FOR
PUIUCATI0N.
United Sntes Land Office, (
La Grande, Oregon, Oct. 37, 1904.
Notice Is hereby given th.it In compliance with the
provision, of the act of congress of June j, I878, en
titled "An act tor the sale ot timber lands In the state
01 California, Oregon, Nevada and Washington Ter
ritory," as extended to all the Public Land States by
by act ot August 4, IB.,
RUINHOLD SCHL'llibR.
ot Sumpter, county of Baker, stale of Oregon, has
this day tiled In this office his sworn statement No.
ji4, for the purchase ot the N4 N Wtf NKK.
of Section No. 12. in Township No. 10 b. range No. jt
EWM, and will offer proof to show that the land
sought Is more valuable for Its timber or
stone than for agricultural purposes, and to estab
lish his claim to said land before Charles H.
Chance, U. S, Commissioner, at hit office at
Sumpter. Oregon, on Monday, the oth day ot Jan
uary, 1 go
He names as witnesses 1-r.ink I:. O'Rourke, ot
Sumpter, Oregon; I'cter J, boards, of Sumpter, Ore
gon; Van Rensselaer Mead, ot Sumpter. Oiegon;
Charles M. McColloch, of Sumpter, Oregon.
Any and all persons claiming adversely the above
described lands are requested to file their claims In
this office on or before said gth day of Janusry. iooj.
E. W. DM'ls, Register.
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