Wednesday, November 16, 1904 IMPERIAL MINE SOLD FOR SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND JUDGE OWEN WINS HIS FIGHT WITH THE VIRTUE THE SUMPTER MINER Injunction Kestraining Him From Removing Rich Tailing Dissolved by Judge Eakin. Ernest Dale Owirn, president uuri general manager of tho Cyclone miuo, mIx miles uorhteast of linker City, arrived in Sumpter yeutunlay, accom panied by Assnyor Homer C. loins and George liurutiitiii, of linker. Judge Owen visited (he smelter to liorHonnily supervise the sampling of Hhipmoiii of tailing from the cele brated old Virtue mine, jiiut over the rldgo fiom the Cyclone. It iri Judge Owen'H collection with thoHe Virtue tiillingH which hiiri re coutly brought him promiiieiitiy he fore the puhlin eyo. A has boon related in them ooIuuiiih, Judge Owen not. long ago Hcourod an option on the tHlliiiKH dump of the old Virtue from General Mnunger J. K. Ilomig, of the newly mow ill zed Virtue OorporHtlon. The tailings were from the old Virtue trtHinp mill, which dropped stamps thirty yearn ngn on the richest free gold ore over taken from an eiiHteru Oregon mine, lu those days, stump milling prnutlno hud not heuii rod omul to mii xnot Moiunoo, Hud the result whh that, hotweon screens of too coarse 11 meHh, stamps witli too rapid a drop, and ore feuderH of antiquated pattern, only a low poroontngo of value waH saved hy amalgamation ylno, no attempt wiih made to Have the extra viatica in the tailiungs and hIIummi. Thla primitive old mill wax located ahout 200 yarda down the hill from the prenent Virtue twonty etnmp mill. The tailings were per mitnd to MloHh down into a little gully aud then diNtrlhute themselves all over the Virtue Hat. In later yeiivu a dam wan onutrtioted aud the tallitiKH impounded for a oouplo of yearn. When the present mill wiih IiiiI It and the old one diHinautled, year after year of alluvial wash from the unrounding hillH covered the old falllugH dump, HHKe brush and hunch grnsH grew, aud the fact whh hooii forgotten time under the nurface lay iiliout. 2,000 toiiH of mighty rich mud. It was'through George lloremnn'tt re collection of old tliuoH that Judge Owen came to know ahout (Iioho old tiillingH. I'Voin (ieuora! Manager Komig he secured jioiuiIhnIou to take nut seventy-live tout of samples fiee. For eiioh additional ton he con tracted to pay seventy-live centH. The contract further provided for an option to purchane, on or hefore January I, 1005, the entire dump for 11.400. JiiHt lielow the spot where the olp mill Htood, a well had beeu dug iu tho good old days. An iusuttloU)U How of water whh fouud, aud the well wiih abaudoned. Tailings from the old mill seeped iuto thin well uutil it whh tilled. Judge Owen's tint HimpleH'were taken from thU wall. Imagine hi surprise, wheu be fouud bits of amalgam and, coarse gold, as well aa high Mold values in a con cout'iitod form. These initial HHUiploH assayed better thau f 100 por tou. Very promptly Oeueial Manager Komlg nee ti rod a touipoisry in junction, restraining Judge Owou from removing Huy uioro of tho valu ablo mud, alleging that the contract provided simply for tho taking of HamplcH, while Judge Owen wiih re moving a heavy tonnage for com mercial purpoHOH. An order to hIiow catiHO why the injunction should not qe made permaueut, iaHiied by Circuit Judge Kohort Eakln, reHultod In bringing the matter on for Ja hearing in La Uremic The contract wiih introduced iu evidence, wltueses for the defeiiHe testified that only Hfty tona had ho far been removed, while tho contract allowed Hoveutv Hvo tmiH, argumenta wore made, and Judge Kakin took the matter under advisement. Today a telephoue moHHage to Judge Owon from hia attorney in linker City, Hon. William Smith. HtatoH that the court han dissolved tho injunction and decided evory point iu Judge Owen'H favor. Tho latter left thla afternoon for linker City, aud will at ouce make up a big Hhipmeut of the tailings to the Sumpter amoltor. He announces thac before hia option expires he will pay tho Virtue the 91,400 men tioned iu the coutract. No roturiiH have yet boeu received from the smelter aampliug worki on the big shipment brought up yes terday, but Assayer Inula, who has made repeated toata peraoually, la sanguiue in a belief that a big profit will be made ou the shipments to be made, Suits Against the Morning Withdrawn. Au agroemeut has been reached aud Monday at Canyon City a motion will be made to have tho suits dis missed that were brought agaiust tljo Morning Mining company, by the Oregon Development company, which menus Messrs. T. W. Davidson aud Arthur lirowu. One of these was for damages, they haviug sold the mine under an optiou aud the owners ro fused to deliver. Tho other suit was au injunction, restraining the owners from working the property. Don't Go to St. Louis 'Till you oall at or write to the Chlcgo, Milwaukee aud St. Paul rat! road. Office 134 Thiid Street, Portlaud, Oregon. Low rates to all points East, iu ooueuotiou with all trausooutiuentals. W. 8. HOWE, Oeueral Agent, Portland, Oregon, Rich Cable Cove Property Said to Passed Into the Hands of a Detroit Syndicate. Have It is reliably reported that tho Im perial mine, In Cable Cuve, has been sold to a Detioit syndicate, for 875,000, 140,000 of which la cash, deposited at 10 o'clock this morniug iu a Salt Lake bank. The gentlemen who effected the sale wore A. L. MEawon, Kenneth O. MaEweu uud Johu Arthur, all of Sumpter, who held tho mine uudor a lease aud bond. Their shnre of the price paid by the purchase 1b said to bo 811,000. The 840,000 said to bnve beeu depoHited iu Salt Lake this morning as'nu initial payment of the mine will pans into the followiug hands: 85,000 to Captaiti A. M. Paul, prin cipal owner of the property, who holds a mortgage lu that sum agaiust tho miuo; 84,000 to John Shauk, oo owuer with Captaiu Paul, which sum also represents a mortgage on the proporty; 811,000 to the leasee Mo Eweu, Arthur & MoEweu; an extra Hum of small dimensions to Johu Arthur in payment or a morgage held by him; 82,000 to individual claim ants; 82,000 to creditors of the mine, aud tho remaiudor, said to be about 825,000, to be used as a working fund iu the operntiou of tho property. On Thursday, November II, A. L. MoEweu roturued to Sumpter from au extended trip to the east, accom panied by A H. Sibley, of Detroit, prealdout of a mining machinery manufacturing company; A. N. Humphrey, of Pittsburg, and C. Noble, of Denver, the two later gentlemen being milling experts and engineers of uatiounl lepute. The party Immediately weut to the mine aud the two experts spent a week iu a thorough examination. Yesterday the Pittsburg expert, accompanied by Keuueth MoEweu, left for Hakor City, eu route home. Neither of tho geutlomen would con sent to au interview, but from sources which are considered re liable it is learned today that the deal has beou consummated. A geutlemnti who hut? beeu iu close touch with the uegotiutious for the past woek said to a Miner mau this moruiug. "It Is my belief that the sale of the Imperial has not yet beou con stimulated aud will not be until Mr. Noble, the Deuver expert, submits his report to hia principals. 1 am iu a positlou to say that all the mouey for the purchase of the Imperial has beeu subscribed by a Detroit syndicate of wealthy manu facturers, aud that It will be promptly paid over wheu the experts submit favorable reports. "No one knows, of course, what the report of the experts will be, but we who know something about the Imperial have no fear that It will be turned dowu." Another feature wbiob affords basis for a belief that the sale of the Imperial has been brought about, is the fact that suit to clear title to the property wbh yesterday instituted in Baker City, lu tho sbaue of a petition for adjudication Hied by C. W. Ntbley agaiust the Eagle Mining company, John Shanks and John Arthur. The plaintiff soeks to re cover 810,000, money loaned, with eight per cent interest from November, 1001, uud the additional sum of 82,425 1)5 attorney's fees. This indebtedness is mentioned in the allotment of the 840,000 in cash, deposited in Salt Lake. The Imperial is one of the pioneer mines of Cable Cove. For many years it was profitably operated on a smnll scale, ore shipments bavin beeu made to remote smelters. Last summer McEwen, Arthur & MoKwen. owuers of the Sumpter Sampling Works, leased the miuo, with option to purchase, aud Installed a samll stap mill, removed fioui the Sumpter plaut. It proved to be a gratifylug success, saving an exceptionally high percentage of values by concentration. Tho miuo has been shipping high grade concentrates aud sorted ore in crudo shape tho Sumpter smelter for some time. The plana of the uew owuers, it Ib said, include au enlargement of the mill aud a heavy increase iu output. It is believed that John Arthur will be retaiued as superintendent, with A. L. McEwen as manager. Gives Alaska a Black Eye. Hugh Gillie, of Sumpter, returned today from Alaska, with blaokeye reports ou the far northern country. Mr. Gillis left Sumpter in April tor the Klondike. He visited the Tauaua, Cook's lulet, ItessurreoMon Hay, Seward peuiusula, the Klondike, all the Yukon river districts aud Cape Nome. "I wouldn't give the Greenhorn mountain rauge for all of Alaska," oaid Mr. Gillis to a Miner reporter. "The country is overrun with wildcats. Oimtlde of Douglas Islaud, there isn't a quartz mine in the far north. I weut to look into some reported copper finds. 1 dis covered that it was all hot air. The Klondike aud Nome placer yields dimiuish each year. The couutry is overrated. Eastern Oregon is good euough for me." Tom Keunerly, manager of the Gold Coiu mine in the Greenhorns, who is also operating the Oregon Kiug, ou Sliver Creek, came up from Baker City this mornig and drove to the last named property.