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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1905)
i i I .! I VOL. VI. EASTERN OREGON GOLD HELPS TO THE FRONT The following lettor has beeu mail ed to every mining man in the Sump ter district, and tn every merobaui -aud business raun who is Interested, direotly or indirectly in the welfare and advancement of the mining in dustry ot the Sumpter camp: Dear Sir.: The City nf Sumpter, through the Hoiicitatiou of tho Sumpter brnuoh of thn Oregon Miners' association, has in ado au appropriation of a sutHclent aum to establish a home for a norma nent ore exhibit of the entire district to be erected in this olty. The exhibit ii to be completed within sixty days, or aa soon as possible, for the purpnae of advertis ing the resources of our great min ing district during the Lewis and Olark fair and aa permaneut fixture thereafter, upon the condition that the mining and business men will contribute ores and maintain the ex hibit in good shape. This will do more to advertise the camp tbau auything which has beeu done heretofore and will be the POWER AT STANDARD Fred Laue, chief alerk for the Kiileu, Waruer, Stewart company is home from the Standard miue at Quartzburg. While in Prairie City, Mr. Lane stated to a reporter for the Miuer at that place that preparations have beeu made to install electric drills at the Standard. At present gasoline engines will be the motive power, but as the company has lately acquired extenisve water rights ou the east and west forks of Dixie creek, the puwer will be transformed and generated by witer, just as soon as practicable. It is the intention to tear down all the buildings at the m'ne and ereot new ouea in their stead, which will meet the demand of the operations at tbh now famous mine. A sawmill will be put iu to supply the lumber, and Mr. Lane arrived there for the purpose of making ar rangements for the purchase of a tok' . 1 . . - H MMTtMl Miwirmv CttyrUll SUMPTER, OREGON, means of benefitting every individual in the district. You arc thereforo enruostly re quested to bo prcBont at a mass meet ing held in the lobby of the Hotel Sumpter ou February 4th, 1005, at 8, p. tn., for the purpose of complet ing arrangements for this exhibit. Do not depend uii the "other fellow" to come, but come yourself. P. S. Tell your neighbor ami have him come, ton. Since the appropriation of 1350 by the city oouuoll ot Sumpter for a permanent mineral exhibit here, Secretary Mohr has conferred with many mining men in the camp and has received assurauces of hearty co-operation in the display. Fred D. Smith, of the Snow Creek, has offered to arrange for a big exhibit from his camp. The smelter man af ement offers to ask permision from regular shippers to set aside specimens and the big Cracker Creek mines announce willingness to send big bunohe i of ore. sawmill iu that distriot, which is iu disuse. In regard to the construction of the Sumpter Valley railroad, Mr. Laue has every reasou to believe that its exteusiou is assured aa far as Austiu during the coming season. A conversation he bad with President Kccles leads him to this conclusion. It is known that the right-of-way has been cleared to that place, and also that muob of the gradiug has been done, and uow it only lemains for the com pany to lay the track. This ex tension will place them so much nearer the mining country that It will greatly increase their traffic (le has given assurance tfeat at least this muob of the extension would be built by next fall. BULL OF THE WOODS SHIPPING ORE NOW Ore Is being shipped from the Hull of the Woods, which adjoins the Hadger in the Susanvllle district, and is owned by au allied company. The haft is down 250 feet, while laterals have beeu extsuded sufficient distsnue on two levels to opsu an ex cellent body of ore. The additional . . " I i LIMP itlUM ii - -vr FEBRUARY i, i MILLING CAPACITY OE THE IMPERIAL DOUBLED Tom O. Cray, geuornl matiagor of the Valley Queen mine, roturuod from a trip to the property today. "Thoro Is less snow on tho summit than fur many years, " said Commodore Cray to a Miner man. "Dosplto the fact,1' ho continued, "Hint this Ih Iu tlio dead of winter, scores of propuitioH In the Silver Crook, Cable Cove and Lake creek districts aro active. It Ib couduoiug to a deep and abiding faith iu the riahuesa of this mineral zone to make the trip to the Haldy mountain aummlt and bnhold the work being carried ou. "Superintendent Jack Doyle, of the Citizen's Cold Mining company, is busy with a good sized force of miners at the Cold Coin mine, above the Half Wuy house. A crosscut tunnel la being driven to tap tho maiu ledge and rapid progress ia belug made with machlno drills. Thn king bee initio of the Cable Cove Is, of course, tho Imperial, owned by a oIobo corporation of Detroit men, under the mangement of A. L. Mo Kweu aud the suporintendeuny of John Arthur. Kenneth O. Mcijwou is asflistaut mauager and metallurglat. The Imperial's milling capacity haa just beeu doubled by the installa tion of a new Huntington mill, with a capacity of 25 tons tier day. Two uew jigs havo also beeu added to t.'e concentrating plant I.. the stamp mill. Ore is being taken from the maiu shaft of the Imperial, and un adit level Ib belug driveu on the re cently acquired Minor claim, lower down ou the mountain A force of twenty-four men are steadily employ ed at this flue property, aud ship ments of ore aud concentrates to the ten stamps In the Hadger mill which wore put iu for the Hull of tho Woods ore, will lie ready for steady operation by spring, aud the connect ing tram between the miue aud the mill will keep them fully supplied. The management is mticeut re garding the magnitude of the ore phoot opened, but private informa tion is to the effect that there is a wider stoplng ground in the uew property tbau the Uadger ever had. The Hull of the Woods is a cross vein to that of the Uadger, aud passes through oue end of the Uad ger olaim. The character of oro seems materially different from the Hadger product, there being a lower percentage of sulphides and very little galena. Uoth veins ruu through i NO. 2$ Sumpter amelter ate steadily being in ado. "A good force of men aro at work at tho Ovorlaud mine, adjoining tho California, under the foremanahlp of Frank McCarvel. Drifting ou tho main vein la tho program, aud m lino body of ore Iiiih huon opened up. "At the Crown Point, across tho head ot the gulch from the Califor nia, contractors are driving a cross out tunnel. The superintendent esti mates that a further drive of forty foet will tap the main velu. Flue ore Is shown In tht tunueJ on the other side of the mountain, to make connections with which the crosscut Is being driven. This mine stands unique, iu that thn south portal of the crosscut is in llaker county and the other end of the working is iu Cirant county. The Crown Point Is owned by J. K, Griffith, Carroll, Iowa, who la at the head of a close corporation. "SVurk at the Alpine la rrogrH aiug steadily, under the superlu tendeucy of Dick Addoms. Oro ia boiug blocked out for m mill run early In tho spring "At the old reliable Monumental, a force of men is engaged iu sink ing a winze in the lower tunnel aud at (he same time upraising to tho surface, where a nutating plant will be erected as sonu as a con nect I on in made. This is a feat fcel (loin attempted, but ia being carried ou tuocessfully by C. J. Allen, of Portland, controlling owner of the Monumental. "Dozens of other properties throughout, the upper camp are work ing with good results. The whole uamp looks good." tho Stockton claim, ou which a shaft more than 200 feet deep has been sunk. With the Hadger yielding its best ore from the (TOO aud 700 levels and the Hull of the Woods coming Iu with shipment grade at the 200, the two principal properties of Susan ville promise big thiuga for the dis trict the present year. There is a better showing iu the South Cem mine than ia usually found in such properties. The drift of 100 feet ou the vein was in good ore a portlou of the distance, and 00 feet fromfthe portal of the tuuuel a winze was sunk 40 teet. Two feet of ore show iu tils deeper woik. Tho new owners will piece operations with the prospect of milliug iu the open lesson.
