FOLLOW THE ORE, SAYS OLD MINER An tilil Cable Cove miner Hndprns pootor wbo, for noarly HO years, bus boon a witnoHH to tho evolution of that dlHtrlct from m torra incognito into mm of the richest miuiug re gions iu the alato, londned back in onu of tboHO big lounging oliHirb in tbu lobby of tbe Hotel Sumpter IhhI night hikI unburdened his mind as follews: ' ' "It utHkeH me slok to een a h toady stream of oro aotne dnwu to tbu smoltor from tbu Imperial mne nud tp Htm In my eyes for slgbc of oro wagons from otbur properties iu tbnt district. A stranger would naturally concluded unit trio impuriHi iihh h monopoly of nil tho shipping oro it. tbu Cove, whilo hh h matter of cold, hard, irrefutable, linked mid uu driipod truth thoro hto h round dozen of tnlnoH up tburu in tbu Cove IiIIIh thHt ought lght now to lio HbippiiiK oro hi riob if not richer tliiiu tho I in- porinl. I know wlmt I'm talking uliont. I know tbnt tboro Iiiih uovor boon 11 fMilnro iu Citblo Cov i wbon n Hiirfnoo showing W"H followed down. 1 don't uieHii to Hiiy tbitt nnj follow can piiHtu h notice near hoiiio surface croppiugH Hud burrow Hrouud iioht tbu top, drifting blindly on those iiurrow llttlu kullo-hlado streaks ot pity oro, which hIiow Ht tbu top of iilmoHt ovory Cove ilHHiiru, uud opou out. 11 body of shipping rock, lint 1 do Hiiy tbnt h MotOwon or mii Arthur can look ovur tbu ground mid deduce 11 geological formulH tbnt will work out, if tboy only go DOWN' I "Ovor tlioio in Duiipby'H Ih n chunk of ImporiHl oro- hh protty a piece of solid miiioral hh ovor oamo out of tho grouud unywboru taken frmii 11 shaft Hunk on h Jl'J-lmili vuin lit tbu lmperinl, wbiob, on tbu Mur ium, wns about hi thick hh h nhoot of pnpor. 1 don't know vhat thoory Manager MolOwon Hiid Superintendent Arthur, of tbu Imperial, are working on, but tbu work tboy are doing MhowHtlmt tboy think mm I do, thHt tho riob ImporiHl vol n, wboru tbu lluu shipping oro Ih now being mluud, Ih uioroly 1111 olf'Hboot from or a feeder of tho initio Kaglo vol u, wbiob Ih h groat big (Insure of comparatively low grade 010, nmi vhioh Is no doubt tho uiothor lodo of tho wholo district. Thoy 11 ru drifting down hill from a lovol in tho ImporiHl stunt IohIiik tlopth nil tho timo, tint getting oro which in tho main idon, anyhow--and 1110 homk'd toward tho junction of tho Nnglu ami Imperial. Thoy i 11 ni following tho 010 tbu host, unreal, simplest and mint scloutlllo MyHtoui of miuiug ovor deduced .from geological toxt hooks or from uu iiuiuhcnd yonrH of practical oxporl onco, "Contrast, if you please, thlH system with thnt in vogue among oitior Cable Cove operator, wbo havo drivou, or art driving, long crosscut tuuols, eating up m fortune iu dead work, wbon thoy might put a 100 whim at work and with two shifts of three moil ouch uluk on thoir vuiu until (ho )y widotii) which it iu variably does ami hegiu taking out Hiid flipping enough oro to puy op. (jrutjn; expenses and loavo a snug THE SUMPTER MINER margin of profit. Of course, it iv a giuat thing to havo it widely adver tised tbnt Manager Hlank, of tbe Dusbdiidh ml no, has undertaken one of tbe moHt gigantic pieces of mining euKlneuriuK in the west- the driving of a (5000-foot crosscut tuuuel to at tain a depth of 2000 feet. Depth on what? Couutry rook? How does Manager Hlauk know that hi will find hH oro iu (1000 foet? And what reason baa he to hope that bia stock boldera will koop on putting up for a couple of bu lid rod thousand dollnrH' worth of duad work, tho Issue of which ia prohlumiitlcnl from a pay-ore point of view? "Vuh; It's certainly groat to be pointed at hh a man wbo in con ducting on unparalleled mining engineering uxporimont, but bow much bettor it in to bu mannger of a property which is stoadlly abipplng pay oro iu suflkiout quantities to MiiHtaiu a payroll of about .')() men, and to permit of stockholders to clip a regular coupon and havo a good-sized look-in for thoir money. And this sort of thing results from J tint one Hlmplu systum following tbu oro. "This system If applied to a dozen Cable Cove minus that I could uamo would roHiilt In making Impurativu tho doubling of tho capacity of tho Humptur Hinoltor and tbu const ruutlou or an ore-hauling lailrond to Cablu Cove. "Now, if thuru's any man prusout wbo fuuls called upon to submit statements, iu refutation of what 1 liavo said, 1 am ready to listen." Tburu was hIIodco in tbu group of mining men who bud giithurcd to boar tbu Iuh ructivu moiiologuu of the old prospector, who waited pntiuuty for a full i.ilnuto, thou Hput copicioiiHly at noi iu a ton-toot away ouspt doru, and amblod triinuphautly into tbu buffut. LOST CABIN MINE FOUND IN IDAHO KuproHciitatlvo Morgan, of Cuutor county, Idaho, In tho course of i oonvcrmtinu on lucky mining strikes, gave tho ddtailH of what ho regards an ii vi.ry proamnion discovery not far from his homo town of Mackay, which wiih repotted to him shortly before bu wont to HoIho, nays a report from tbnt town. a number ot yvHrs ago, occordiug to Mr. Morgan, a miner died at Salmon City from mountain fuvor, nhoitly after having made a striku of remarkable richness, Ho was un able to givu any of the particulars of his striku, but left a map behind him, from which efforts almost without number havo been made to locate his ouu-timo property. None of IiIh friends know tbu loca tion of tbu supposedly rich miueral doposlti, but it was kuowu that bu had erected a cabin on tbu prop erty, wherever it was, and in course of time this "lost cablu" became BIG ORE BODY AT MOUNTAIN VIEW It is reported around town today that auother riob strike bos beeu made in tbe Mountain View mine, one of mure tbau ordinary signifi cance The Miner uas neeu unanie to lecure an authoritative statement of the details, but learns that it is a large body of high grade shipping ore, found Id on open cut high up the hill. It is stated that Dr. Tec how, the superintendent, has for several weeks past been" endeavor! ug to demon strate whother or not a tboory which he conceived was correct. It was known that on tbe property there is very woll known all through Lemhi and Cutter oounl'es. John W. Swauuor. a rauober on Lost river, a short distance bolow Maokay, now repotrs that ho has found the cabin and that tho miu uarls found near by are iudued rich. He iu turu has rofusod to divulge tho exaot whoruabouts of the "lost cabin," but says that ho found it iu an old dry gully not fur from Dour creek, whor none had ever be fore lookod for it. Swauger, so Mirgau states, is quite wealthy and cannot bo sus pected of roportiug a "fako"' din- covury for purposes of iuduoiug fin ancial aid. He has always been ruBpuutod and his word iu tho com munity is good. For those reasons the statomunt made by Swauger to Morgan aud a few others ar to tho character of tbe ore fouud aru re garded by him as quito reliable, bar ring tho possibility of Swauger him self being miatnkeu. Swauger stateH tbnt tbo old cabin was partially burled under au im iu'Uiho log that had toppled ovur ou top of if. Uy digging dowu uuder this log, however, he had sucurod ac cess to a small boulder of groat rich ness, tho oro ruuuiug up iuto tbu hundiuds of dollars This boulder, It is Assumed, must have come from somewhere iu the neighborhood of tho cabin, but tho lode has not been discovered. In tbu viuiuity of tbo uabiu, how ovor. is a large body of oro of, froe milting character. While this assays some :t or l silver, its principal value is iu gold, of wbiub thoru was in the pieoo assayed for Swauger, ao cord lug 'to his report, almost an ounce to tin ton. Tboro seems almost inexhaustible quautity this ore. an of DISTANT GOLD flELDS LOOK GREEN. CHANCES AT HOME Prnm timo to tlmu tho Miuiug Re view has oommeuted upon tbe pre vailing teudeucy in miuiug circles, io ignore conditions aud possibilities nenr at baud, while clinging to tbe belief thnt bonanzas were to ns found iu regions Isolated au at a consider able distance from home; tho result boiug that many good tbius, existiug In their owu immediate vioiutiy, havo beeu over looked aud neglected j by miuiug meu. Wednesday, February 8, 19 a slate and granite contact. His idea was that the ledge from wbiob he has beeu taking ore either trended to wards tbe coutaot, or else it is an off shoot from that rein. To test this theory, he haB made a series of open cuts along tbe contact, and several days since uncovered a new nud rich ore Ijody. ( ' Yesterday two fonr-borse wagon loads ot bis ore was brought to the smelter here. It is said that a couple ot shots will knook down a wagon load, wbiob Is shipped with out sorting. MoBt of tbe other ore from this mine is concentrated before being Hhipped. The fHct that meu lire iucliued to "puss up" tho good things at homo because of tbo ever-preseut desire to prospoct iu localities beyond the horizon, leads to many really amus ing iucideuts in connection with tbo various pbasos of the mining industry of tho west, one of which Is that one mau, iu his search for deposits of tho precious metal, will meet with success almost in the door-yard of auother mau, who is prouo to coullue bis prospecting to distant fields; aud who, percbauce, within a short dis tauoo of the borne of tho first miner, baB also beou successful iu his search for hidden wealth. To show how good prospects are often overlooked at home, wo havo ouly to call tho attention of reports coming from the new camp of Hull frog, in southern Novada; a locality that is attracting a great deal of at toutiou at tbe proseut time, because of the very important discoveries' mado iu that seatiou ot late; aud it is claimed that tbe origiual Bullfrog disoovery waa made within a milo o tbe homo of au old rancor and pros- peotor, who had lived in that local ity for many years. This old veterau, it ia claimed, has annually made prospecting expeditious to regious remote from bis home, little tbiukiug for a moment that tbe couutry surrouudiug his ranch was mineral-bearing, or that it would ever bo productive of gold galore. Aud yet, uuder bis very uose, a Col couda caapjias been discovered aud established by straugers, aud grouud that he never took tbu trouble to ex amine, to investigate, bus proven to bu rich iu its deposits of tbo prouiouB metal. This, another instauco jf Creen Pastures Heyond, aud shows very clearly that iu almost any section of tbo iuter-mouutaiu reginu it is not necessary to go a great distauce from home to find a good prospect, to dis cover inluoral-beariug grouud that is possessed of value. Salt Lake Miu iug Review. Don't Go to St. Louis 'Till you call at or write to the Cbicgo, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail road. Office i:U Thdd Street, Portlaud, Oregou. Low rates to all poiuts East, iu ooueuotion with all transcontinental. W. .8. ROWE, General Agent., Portlaud. Oregon;