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Wednesday, January ii,iqo$
THfc bUMPTER MINhR
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INJUNCTION STOPS
SALE OF GOLCONDA
The Golconda miue whs uot sold
at auction Wednesday in Pendleton,
as advertised.
The federal court at Portland
granted an injunction Tuesday. A
deputy United States marshal raced
from Portland to Pendleton and
papers wero served on tbe interested
parties Wednesday noon, two hours
before the scheduled sale was to have
taken place.
United Statos Judge tialllngor
grauted the injunction, reBtraniug
the public stile of tbe mine upon the
petition of II. T. Heudryx, of
Similiter, through his attorney, N. C.
Richards. Mr. Hendryx acted as at
tornoy-in-faot for Alexander Prus
iug, of Chicago, trustoo for tho
minority Golooudu stockholders,
who recently pooled thoir holdiugs
in the hopo of bringing about nu
equitable reorganization of the
Golconda com puny. The petition for
a restraining order, proacuted to
Judge Ibilliugor by Mr. Hendryx,
rocitoil alienations to tbe otroct that
llin proposed forced sale was in con
travention of corporate right; thut it
jeopardized the interests of tbe
INJUNCTION IN IRON
DYKE CASE DISSOLVED
Is to Take Effect on
1 hat District
Once
From Pennsylvania comes the in
formation iu tho shape of a letter
from Attorney Rosensweig of Krio to
Attorney Rand of liaker City, that
tho United States court of that
state has give notice that th in
junction it-sued in the Iron Dyk
case will be dissolved on the lit
toenth of February next, permitting
tho sale of the miue to proceed
under tbe decree of the Uaker county
circuit court.
This is the moat satisfactory piece
of news received iu Raker City iu
many a day, fur it meaua that ono of
the greatest mining camps iu eastern
Oregon will soou be reopened, mauy
meu will bo put to work and the
Snake river railroad will be built from
JIuutlngton to Homestead in 1H05.
Those familiar with this case know
that tbe Iron Dyke miue at Home
stead, liaker county, on Snake river,
is oue of tbe greatest copper prop
erties iu the west; that its develop
ment was stopped just aa ic was about
to be placed upon tbe producing list
and railroad built to connect with
smaller stockholders, aud that a fed
eral court order to postpone the sale
until the auunal stockholders' meet
ing ou January 10, at Pendleton,
would afford an opportunity for all
conflicting Interests to get together
aud adjust maters on au amiaablo
basis. Upou this showing, Judgo
Bellinger granted a temporary re-
I straining order, the writ of iujuuo-
tlon bolng made returnable after th)
annual meeting.
Mr. Heudryx returned from Pen
dleton this morniug. To a Miner
man he said:
"We suocoeded in preventing a
forced bhIo of tho Golconda mine
through a federal court injunction.
Tho injunction wur scoured at tbe in
stance of TrtiBtoo PrtHsiug. The b-jnt
of feeling prevail between all parties
couceruod, and the stopping of the
salo of tho mine is simply another
Hep to a Hatisfactory settlement of
factional diiforeuoa, aud a complete
reorganization of the Golonuda com
pany along proper lines. Tho entire
matter will undoubtedly bo settled
at the stockholder's annual meeting
on January 10, which will be held in
Peudleton."
February 1 5.
Will Get Busy
More.
When
the O. R. & N. main Hue through
complications growing out of the
various bankruptcy proceedings against
Charles M. Reed and his comauios
in tbe courts of Oregon aud Pennsyl
vania; tho luterveutlou of Mrs.
Sbatto a year ago further compli
cated matters; the decree of the
Rakor county court to soil tbe prop
erty in foreclosure of a mortgage of
8100,000, wblob only a few years ago
was sold to Reed under the hammer,
was held up by tbe decree of the
Pennsylvania court some mouths ago
ponding bankruptcy proceedings
against Reed.
Now that notice has been given
that this iujuuetlou will bo dissloved
all parties interested iu the case can
not fail to be greatly elated at the
prospeot of an early adjustment of
affairs aud the starting up of work
again on the mine and the railroad.
It is understood tbat tbe sale iu
Baker county under decree of this
court will proceed now regardless of
appeals that may have been taken or
that may be takes te the sapreue
court. With tho salo made, money
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inn ii u iiiiuioiimi tin iiiu juvinuuil-
, tloti of the miue aud the build log
of tbe railroad.
In this couueciou, it is also under
stood that thero can be no doubt cf
there being a connection made ou
Snake tiver between tho Northwest,
railroad and the Vinson road which
will be begun from linker City to
Pine Valey In tho spring. With all
the big thiuga doing in mining in
the Cornucopia district it would seem
that 100G promisos much In the cnnips
east of Maker City. Raker City
Dfltnooiat.
Pendleton-John Day Kallroad.
Dr. C. J. Smith, Charlos 11. Car
tor, T. C. Taylor aud James II.
Roilly, of Peudleton, have Hied
articles of incorporation with tho
county clork of Umatilla county aud
the secretary of state for tho Peudle
ton Southoru Railway company. The
intention of tho company is to
build aud equip a railway aud a
telegraph line from Peudleton to
Pilot Rock, thenco to Hcppuor and
tho coal Ileitis beyond into the John
Day country. Tho capital is $100,
000, dividod into 1,000 share of
8100 each. The enterprise is said to
be backed by outside capital to assist!
in the building. prelimiary sur- j
voy will be made after the llrst. if
the year if the weather Ih favorable.
ANOTHER ELECTRIC
LEDGE LOCATOR
The London Dully Telegraph gives
a rather iudellnite description of an
, electric ore Under. Leo Hart. I lie
I American montioued as one of the
inventors, is well known on this
const. He was one of Hie llrnt to
study practically the great force,
and his tuiflt was placed iu the elec
trical building at the Chicago world's
i fair along side of Didsou. Mr. Halt.
' left tho Puget. sound country sou o
J ten years or more ago, foi Australia.
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lull i i;ii;i iiiu -iiijn.
"The apparatus by which this re
sult is rendered possible in the In
vention of Mr. Leo Haft, au Ameri
can, and Mr. Williams, an lOnglish
man. It is extremely ingenuous aid
iu the hands of oxperts admits of the
most delicate manipulation. The
essential principle of its working Is
that it emits not a continuous cur
rent, but a series of little, short,
sharp ImpulsoB. These will go for
ward iu all directions aud when they
meet with quartz rock or metallic
lodes the waves are so modilled that
the listener can form a good judg
ment where tho ore bodies oausiug
tbe variation of sounds ate situated.
The Harow Hematite & Steel company
matlo a trill of the electric oro
tinder. The apparatus indicated tho
praition of the ore deposits, and this
was done so accurately that when
the Harrow company put down a bore
hematite was found at about the
depth adjudged, and tbe discovery is
likely to prove of great Importance.
Iu a similar way, with variously
attuned apparatus,
gold has been
located iu Alaska and Siboria, lead
in Wales, copper iu Cornwall aud at
Collision, aud tb'j other metals we
have named iu various parts.'
Representative Smith left this
afternoon of Salem, to be present a.
tbe convening of tbe legislature
Monday.
MINING ABOVE
CLOUDS IN PERU
At au elevation of ll,'27fi feet,
above tbe sea level the miniug dis
trict of Cerro de Pasco, iu Peru, is
located. Here is, indeed, mining
above tbe cloudy, or, more correctly,
right iu their midst. Tho silver
mines of Corro do Pasco onco pro
duced enormous quantities of silver
from some of the richest silver ore
that the world Iuih over seen, so his
tory tolls us. It has been a oouplo
of hundred years since tho mineral
deposits of this place woro dis
covered, and as there are no posi
tive statistics of metal production,
we aro left only to surmise of the
district's output, One estlmato is
that at loast 1'0,000,000 Iu silver
has been extracted, while another
places the amount at about double
that great sum. However, it la an
assured fact that Cerro do Pasco
has produced vast quantities of tho
white metal, and that, there still
exists rloh'doposlte is most certain.
An American company has gone
to an euormouH expense in purchas
ing tulnoH and building metallurgical
works at Cerro do 1'atoo, and ttio
reduction of ore will soon begin.
Tbe men behind the enterprise aro
thoroughly acquainted with mining
conditions iih practiced In the United
States. The bent of American mining
and metallurgical tulmit wmh secured
in tbe preliminary operations, aud
in tbe working of the mine and re
duction plant there will be Amerl
cans of known ability.
The enterprise of this company la
the more forcibly illustrated when
die climate of Corro (loPasoo is taken
, hito cuiifldorntion. Jioing located at
, the tremendous elevation, and, with
I i,t one execution, the blithest nlace
iu the world where mining is carried
ou, naturally HiIh vast, altitude calls
for au abominable climate. And it.
assuredly Is supplied with what is
probably the woiHt climate known
mi human beings. The winter opeiiH
up sharply iu October aud continues
well into the following July, when
au Imitation summer of a cuople of
months makes its appearance. Iu
winter I hem are almost, continuous
storms of snow, hail and sleet, aud
accompanying these storms there in
usually a frigid, damp mist, being
due to the fact that the place is right
Iu Hie midst of the clouds. Tho
summer, if thero be oue, has but few
clear days; rain, hail, and sleet are
frequent, aud a continuation of the
mist abomination.
Despite these almost prohibitive
conditions " capitalists put a
million or more dollars of their
money into Cerro do Pasco mines.
To those who will have tho operation
of the plant there will be a complete
isolation, iuteiiHllled by an execrable
olimate. Tho mining and metal
lurgical profession contains many
heroes. Mining World.
KHTfiAY NOTION.
Taken up, at the ranch of Henry
! 1'annlng, near Whitney, last spring,
two 2-year-old colts, one grey,
branded "O" on led shoulder, aud
ou i buy branded . Owner may
regain property by paying expense
of their keeping since the date of
their taking up.
HENRY PANN11NO,
Whitney. Ore.
December MO, 1904,
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