THE SUMPTER MINER
Wednesday, December 7, 1904
RED BOY EXPECTED TO
OPEN ALMOST ANY DAY
Receiver's Pinal Report Approved by Judge
Eakin Yesterday. Waiting for
Orders From Chicago.
The filial transfer of tho Hod Hoy
mine to Mitt Pruning syndicate whh
oft'eoted yesterday hI linkur City
whim 01 ron If. Judge Hubert Kakiti
officially approved (ho final report
of Hoooiror John TIioiiihimi. It wiih
contingent tiioi) J ho court's approval
of the ffiooivor's final report thiit the
Pi-nsslng syndicate purchased the
mine Ht. public auction for about
80,000, ihkI pnuuisod to reopen tho
mi no on n largo hciiIo, 'I'ho property
Ih now in thu full mid complete
possession of tho reorganization
uommittoo, at tho hoiid or which Ih
Alexander PrusHitig, or Chicago, and
it only nmiHiiiH to complete a fow do-
tailH connected with thu Incorpora
tion of it now holding company be
roro tho ramoiiH gold hull Ion pro
duoor Ih again on tho active liHt.
Keooivor Thomson, who since tho
aalo of tho mi no to tho reorganize,
hi(H lawn acting manager, will un
doubtedly ho oontinnod in that
poHitioii. During IiIh incumbency
mh receiver and lator hh acting man
a, or, ha has overhauled tho. Knd. liny
oquipaient, mado a nnaihor of needed
HiirroyH, cleaned up tho surface, and
plaooil everything In readiness for
immodiato resumption. An electric
plant Ih in protiom of installation,
mining Umbers suflloiont for hIx
monthM work havo hoon out liy tho
May Queen Hiiwmill, and tho manager
only awaits tho oommand from
Chicago to start tho 150,000 hoist
ltK plant and tako out oro.
No d oil n I to announcement of tho
dovoloptuont plaiiB of the management
Iihh hoon made At the time of the
HiiHpouHinn of thu mine under the old
Hod Hoy Consolidated management,
the rumor hecame current that the
oro hodiuH were exhaiifltod in the
tunnel IuvoIh, and that ho f oro pro
duction could he roHiimod it would
ho nocoHHury to Hiuk below tho
lowest ault-lovcl and open up now
oro bodies. While this may havo
huon true in a meaHiire of tho Hod
Hoy and Monarch lodges, It is a well
known fact that a largo iiautity of
milling (io Ih availahlo in Concord
group. Despite all that Iimh hoon
said hy puHiido-kuookorH auont tho
Hod Hoy, the faot remaliiH that tho
mine whh shut down on account of
lltiancial ditllcultioH into which the
old Consolidated company whh
plunged hy warring shareholders.
It Ih lielievod that Manager Thorn
hoii, when orderH come from Chicago
to reopen the mine, will iiegiu taking
out and milling ore from the Con-
cord, HlmultauooiiHly sinking tho Hod
Hoy ahaft to got under that famniiH
1000 root payHhoot on tho Hod Hoy
vein and tho l'JOO-foot payshoot on
tho Monarch vein, rrom which it Ih
OHti mated 7110,000 not waH taken
under the (Indfroy-Tahor manage
mont. It Ih loiruod from high authority
that all tho Htock in tho proposed
holding company to ho incorporated
hy Mr. Prusaiug has heen subscribed.
was opening, the news came down
from Silver oreek that a magnificent
shoot of fabulously rich ore had
been opeued in the Free Coinage.
Ou top of the report came orders from
Portland to shut down.
Schilling and Cannon came with
much haste to look at the mine. A
email crew of men were umnloved to
put In a bulkhead. Since that day
the Free Coinage Inn been in most
iuuocuouB desuetude. Why?
.J tut after the reported rich strike
another seuastional chapter in Free
Coinage history was writteu. Vio
Schilling mysteriously disappeared
from his Portland home. The police
of the whole nation were, notified,
but the mystery lemaiued unsolved.
Schilling never came back, his wife
sued for divorce, and the incident
passed into history. It is knowu
that Schilling is not dead, but is
alive and prospering somewhere in
tue southwest. Why he left home
is the mystery.
While Vic Schilling was not the
controlling owner of the Free Coin
age, yet the fate of the mine is in his
bauds. Perhaps, when he comes
back to Oregon, when the sea gives
up its dead, whou the lost Charley
Hoss is found and whou the ideut'tv
of the geutleman who soaked Hilly
Patterson is divulged, tho Free
Coinage may bo reopened, that bulk
head removed and a flue piece of
property made to show what it's made
of.
manners as he ordered them out of
the Hue.
In the early days the ore had to
yield 8100 a ton or more profit, but
uov, through the introduction of the
cyanide aud ohlorination processes,
it will pay to reduce 38 and 310 ores.
ANOTHER CHAPTER IN
CORNUCOPIA HISTORY
FOUND "THE CREEK."
IS DYING IN POVERTY
IDLENESS OF THE
FREE COINAGE
In traveling tho road to tho star
grazing miiumll of tho Hald moun
tain divide, which' ' sopa'ratoH Lake
('rook from Cable Cove beneath tho
shoulder of which olugu tho Call
foniia initio like' a haruanlo to a
green hIiIp'h hull one pasties mine
ut'tor miiio. proHpoot after proupoct,
I mint lou at for location. Dlsonvyry
charts mark tho route from Sumpter
up Powder river to Hanover, from
llanovor up Silver crook to tho
aforoHi id star-grazing Hummit.
TuiiiioIh lino tho road, aud the ring
of hammer on stool answer's tho
hollow rovorhsratlnu roar of blasts.
Tho chugging noise of machine drills
oozes out over good sized dumps,
and from over tho California mouu
tain coined the thunder of dropping
stamps at tho Imperial an) Alpine.
All of which spoils production,' activ
ity aud life.
Just thia side of tho Cable Cove
contact, whore the slate of tho
t ; . .
mother lode system meets tho granite
of tho higher hills, is the Free Coin
age initio, which, siuce 1000 has heen
as idle as a school hoy knee deep In
June. Iti hoisting plant is gradu
ally going to wreck aud ruin, its
boarding house windows are slowly
succumbing to the irresistible temp
tation of traveler to see how clone
they can come with a rock to the fow
remaining panes. The spirits of
desolation aud abandonment hovor
over tho mi no. Why?
It was in '00 that W. II. llurlburt.
thou general passouger agent of the
O. H, it N. railroad, now general
manager of tho O. W. A- P. com
pauy, at Portland; Victor Schilling,
ox-ulty O. H. v. X, ticket agent in
Portland; K. C. Little, United
States tlrih commissioner for the
state of Washington. with head
quarters in Tacoma; Whitney Hoise,
a Portland attorney; Kd Cannon, or
Portland, ud a few railroaders from
the west coast, acquired the Free
Coinage. In the dead of winter r.
hoist aud steam plant were shipped to
the mine, carpenters working with
half-frozou lingers to erect the plant
with all possible speed. A shaft was
sunk on tie vein, which showed a
fair grade of free gold ore, aud the
railroaders begau tlguriug ou divi
dends. Just as the spring of 1000
Hob Wotuaok, tho mau who dis
covered gold at Ctipple Creek, aud
thereby added 1(50,000,000 to the
world's wealth, is lying helpless aud
paralyzed in a sanitarium at Colo
rado Sprlugs.
lie used to he known as "Lucky
Hob," but to judge from his his
tory "Unlucky Hob" would be a
more appropriate nanio. lie whs
always what people call au "easy
mark;" his habits have awlayH been
correct; no nas nau plenty or money
at times aud once he owned .'10,000
worth of cattle, hut he has been a
"high roller," aud uever could keep
his money.
He has boen a spendthrift aud has
gambled it away aud has beeu in the
habit of "blowiug it in," like other
cowboys. Once when he had sold a
thousand head of stock iu Colorado
Spriugs, he took his pay iu 310 bills,
aud, sittiug one a curbstone ou Tejou
street, banded one of them to every
body that passed, as a tokeu of his
regard.
The uews that "Hob" Womack
wai giving away ten dollar bills
naturally spread like a prairie lire
aud a long procession was promptly
formed. "Hub" sat on the curb
and exchanged repartee, cowboy
fashion, with the people as they
passed him aud handed each a bill.
Some of his freiuds tried to inter
fere, which made him furious. He
Informed them with great dignity
that he was able to take care of
himself aud also of disposiug of his
money iu auy way he liked. That
he had uot eutirely drowned his
reaiou iu his cups was evideut by the
mauner Iu which he detected "re
peater." iu the Hue.
Nobody was able to fool him.
Wheuever a mau or a woman would
come up a second time. Womack
would rebuke them steruly iu good,
strong rauch lauguage, aud be told
them what he thought of their
Another chapter has been written
iu Cornucopia mine history. Last
Monday, at Haker City, Colonel W.
F. Hutcber, as attorney for a large
number of judgment creditors, bid
in the real property of the mine at
sheriffs sale for 338,106. A week
ptior he purchased the personal
property at forced sale for a trifle
less tbau 34,000. The owners of the
mine have, according to the Oregon
mining law, aixty days iu which to
redeem the property. There can be
no redemption of personal property.
A conflict of legal opiuiou exists as
to the constitutionality of the sixty
day redemption provision in the
Oregon mining law, which is con
sidered by some lawyers as in direct
coutravoutiou of the statute provid
ing a twelve-mouth redemption
period for real estate sold by the
sheriff. This questiou has never been
pased upon by the supreme court of
Oregon, but will undoubtedly be
iu the Cnruucopia case, aB bo far as
knowu, no move has yet beeu made
by the old owners of the mine to re
deem the million-dollar mine, which
sold under tho hammer fur lees than
310,000.
it is believed that it is due time a
syndicate, recruited from among the
old owners of the Ccrnucopia, who
inolude suoh men as "Sugar Baron"
Searles, fix-Secretary of the Nvay
Tracy, Uuited States Souator John
H. Mitchell, of Oregon, United
States Senator Allison, of Iowa, and
other natioual fligures, will be
fouued to take over the mine and
resume production.
Mining Excitement at Paisley.
Paisoly is enduring the throes of a
mining excitoment which faaB bad
several weeks duration. Some four
miles south of the city a large num
ber of claims have been staked off
and aotive prospecting la being
caried on in an attempt to locate
lead deposits. The excitement was
caused by the location of several
claims by Sau Francisco parties who
have stated that the district is rich in
lead, aud their assertion is backed up
by quite heavy expenditures for de
velopment work. It is Bald that
should those prospects come up to
expectations tho country would ex
perience a boom such aB made Tono
pah and (ioldtield famous. The dis
trict iu questiou is kuown to con
tain heavy mineral deposits. Crook
Couuty Journal.
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8f.0() Certificate of the best
Oil Stock absolutely given away.
Writo at once tor plan how to
secure Five Dollars' worth of
fully paid and non-assessable
Oil Stock without cash.
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Room 720 Park Row Bldg.
NEW YORK
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