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VOL. VI.
SUMPTER, OREGON, DECEMBER 7, 1904
NO. 1? 13
W. L. VINSON WILL REOPEN
RICH MAGNOLIA AT ONCE
Baker City Mining Plunger and Railroad
Promoter Returns to is First Love
in the Granite District.
W. L. . Vinson on leased the
Magnolia mine, with an optiou to
purchase, and will reopen the prop
erty at ouce. Stamps will prob
ably be dropping In teu days. The
deal was olnsed some tme ago, but
was not given publicity until today.
Al P. Jones, one of the owners of
the Magnolia, is now at th property,
gettiug tbiugs In shape for Immediate
resumption. A crow of teu men is
employed aud tbla force will shortly
bo doubled. Some changes and
improvements will be mudo in the
mill. A Standard concentrator will
be add od to the present battery of
two Wilfley table and two vauuers.
When the contemplated obauges are
made, the teu stamps will be drop
ping for a test run on accumulated
ore in tho bins. Only a superficial
attempt will be made to save the
gold values by amalgamation. Coarse
oouaeutratlou.wlll be the , principal
process, and 'the product' will be'
sbippe.1 to the Sumpter smelter.
The Magnolia is looated Ave miles
northwest of Granite, near the
summit of the divide between the
north fork of the John Day river aud
Granite creek.
In 1809, V. L. Vinson, who at
that time represented an English
syndicate, bonded the Magnolia and
erected a teu-staoip mill. Owing to
the inability of the management to
save a satisfactory percentage of
ass.iy values by amalgamation, the
mine was shut down, the Vinson bond
forfeited aud the property lu time
reverted to its original owners, who
are Al P. Jones and brother, of
Sumpter; Port Oonde, of Baker City,
Grant Thornburg, of Uranite, and
the English syndicate that paid for
the erection of the mill.
Since then a number of parties
have secured short-time options on
tho Magnolia, bat met with invari
ably poor suooess in financing the
proposition.
Devlopmeut consists of au adit
level, 7C0 feet long, giving backs of
286 feet. Two upper tunnels aggre
gating fi50 feet lu length.
Au examination made in 1000 by
Uuited States geological surveyors
revealed the fact that the vein strikes
norbteastelry and shows from !1 jj to
i fourteen feet of mixed quart, and
slate. Two payshoots were en
countered in tunnel No. 1, 100
land 140 feet long; in the inter
mediate level a 400-foot shoot has
been uncovered. It is couiorvativnly
estimated that .'10,000 tons of ore are
in sight. Thn best ore 1h found in
the lower tunnel. During tho life
of the originnl Vinson boud, 'J, 000
tons of 80 oie were milled.
The country rock is a black
argillite, or clay Hlato. On grauito
creek, below tho miue, tho slates are
distinctly contact metamorphosed,
Indicating tho proximity of thn
granite contact. The 'slates near
tho miue show distinct flssility,
striking north thirty-five degrees and
dipping sixty degrees southwest.
' "The problem which successive
bonders of the Magnolia have been
called upou to solve, has been an
efficacious ore treatment process.
Cyauide has been tried with small
success, laboratory tests of the
ohlorination process have resulted
unsatisfactorily. Direct 4amalga
mttloo has proveu capable of effect
ing a saviug of only about forty per
cent of crude ore assay values. Con
centration under thn origiual Vinson
management resulted in a uroduat of
low grade .84 ouuces of gold aud
1.38 ouuces of stiver. Tailings
assayed high. The opiuiou prevail
that the error of the old management
was iu attempting too close concen
tration. It is believed that a more
uniform crushing aud a coarse con
centration will effect a satisfactory
saviug.
In 1800 W. L. Vinson1 was the
heaviest operator in the camp. He
handled the Magnolia, the Little
CJiaot and Maideu's Dream mines,
owned the Sumpter electric light
plant, built the Sumpter waterworks
and platted au addition to this towu.
Things went wrong, tho Kugilah
syudioato contracted cold feot, ho
lost a good deal of money and
removed to Hnkur City. Thoro ho
cleaued up a ueat sum on tho Carrol
H initio in Plesuut Valley, acquired
the rich rJmnm miuo, near tho Virtuo
aud has been producing bullion ever
since. Recently ho aud J. W.
Pattorson, of linker City, purohiiHod
the North Fork placors, near Granite,
iustalled a sawmill to build a
twolvo-miio flume, and next spring
will opurato sixteen giauta on rich
ground. Mr. Viiihou is also pro
moting a railroad from linker City
to Snake river, via Pine and Miigln
valloys, and is muotiug with hiiccosh.
Ho is reported to control unlimited
cnpital.
Tho resumption of tho old Mag
uolla is good nowH to tho people of
this wholo camp. Comlug on top
of the announcement of the reopeu
lug of the Rod Hoy, it baa created a
spirit of boom to Granite district
mluee.
cordwood, It would not soil for tilOO;
but that ho Iiiih uncovered mineral
rock in plnoo, and tho allowing is ex
cellent. Ho Iiiih an extension of tho
Vankeo Girl ledge. ( it Ih hia, opinion
that tho Hear Gulch' "district la the
richest In eastern Oregon , and will
bo tho making of Sumpter, being,
right at IIh bnvtk door.
NEW MEMBER KILLEN-WARNER-STEWART
ENGINEERING STAFF
From Poverty to Wealth.
Penniless five years ago, after fall
ing in the general merchandise busi
ness iu Watervillo, William II.
HllHcher, commonly known as "Cap
tain" Illlsuhor, has just refused au
offer of 840,000 for a practically un
developed prospect in tho Savon
Dovlla mining dlatrlct of Idaho.
Furthermore, tho former poverty
stricken man doclnres that 600,000
would not tempt him to sell bin
newly discovered property, which he
believes will net him several timeH
the sum offered, le years ago
Captain llilcahur left Wateiyjlle a
bankrupt aud started out to swok
fortune anew He drifted from one
miuiug cimp to auotbar, and after
prospectiug through several districts
iu Idaho, located a claim in the
Seven DevilH, which he calls the
Soldier Hoy. The discovery was
made about three mouths ago. Ac
cording to General Mauager Adams,
of the Ladd Metals company, which
operates the smelter at Laud ore, the
ore shows values of II 00 t)or ton,
with forty psr oeut copper, twelve
per ceut gold aud seven per oeut
silver. Captaiu llilsuher Hays the
Li'dd Metals compauy made him an
offer of $40,000 for his claim, on
which, the ouly developlmeut Is a
shaft fifteen feet lu depth and some
stripping of the ledge, ,11a says tho
ledge is live feet iu width and wideiiH
with depth.
Mining Ground for Timber Claim.
W. A. Lotspeich, who has mineral
holdiugs in the Hear Gulch district,
is iu towu today, to take steps to
prevent au application for a timber
claim from gobbling up his mining
grouud. He nays there is no timer
on the ground that is suitable fur
lumber, aud if all of it were out into
A. R Keor, until recently oon
uooetd with thn management of tho
Calfoiriila miue. lu Cable Cow, baa
accopted a position iih assistant en
gineer for the KJllen, Warner, 'Stew
art company, aud entered upon hla
duties December 1. Mr. Koer Is it
graduate of the Unlverlsty of Minne
sota school of mines, aud to h
thorough teohulcal aduoatlou has
added' ttwo years of practical ex
perience lu underground wer Ilia
addition to the euglueerlug slaff of
the Klllen, Warner, Stewart compauy
waa brought about byiProfoMosr H. 11.
Nioboslou, who- .has watched Mr.
Keer's work lu this camp, and 'whose,
pressure of work, handling aa ho
does, the Standard, Morning, Oregon
Monarch aud half a dozen other
m lues in thiH camp, made the ap
pointment of an assistant imperative'
ly necessary, i
Gold Coin Officers Here..
Major T. II. Nntaii 'iiii'il' A.' IY
Gasmire, officers anil dircotora of tho
Citizens' Consolidated Gold Miuing
company, operating tbfi Go)uj Coin
'miue, on Powder river, four mllea
above Sumpter, arrived here on this
moruulg'a train. They 'Ivrii joiued
at Haker City by L. 1 Ostium!, who
came up from Tho Dalles to join
them, aud who accompanied them to
Sumpter. The party will drive out
to the miue either thia afternoon or
tomorrow to inspect tho property and
straighten out soum legal matters.
Messrs. Notati aud Gassmire will
probably remain lu Sumpter for a
week or ton days.
Sale of Morris No. 2.
1 O. Hucknum and J. Win Wilsou
have sold Morris No '1, miuiug claim,
a property adjoining the Morrla
patented grouud, to the Iowa-Oregon
compauy. This is thn company, of
which Grant Thornliurg, of Grauite,
is tho resident representative"" that
took over some weeks since the
Morris mine, a silver proposition
aud one of the earliest to bo opened
up iu eastern Oregon, of which "deal
Tho Miner made extended mention at
the time. Those who know aud are
competent to judge, say that the
Morris No. 2 is u very value bio
acquisition. The price is not kuowu.
fc'ome cash has bee a paid.
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