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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1905)
MWl Mjjgjiu..fj rs H THE SUMPTER MINER Wednesday, March 1,1905: r f U M ANOTHER PIC1URE OF PROSPECTOR Here he comes, with his overalls or oorduroyH well marked with gouge or greate, usually both. Hii whls item are ragged and be baH it hungry physiognomy. Linton to hie tale of Hones to bu acquired If only tbe bolo oould ba sunk deeper. Who is tbe cuss? .Sometimes be la an individual who oould resurroet a HheepHkiu Is sued by Mr. 101 lot of Harvard. Ofteuer he Ih a plain Amorluari citi zen with little schooling, but verHcd in tbe lore of individuiJ oontniot and being up against it. Nutty? Not much only horn with the pointier instiuot the wan during foot the ear whlob hoars only the call uf the wild. Many of them? Hi, Honor ; many. lOvury boy who hacks IiIh naiiie on a fence with a jiiok-knlfo Ik a relative of Untile! lioouo, the himiio who in hiu Kentucky but this la due to abundance of water, and not to scaroit of ore. There la in immense amount of Reed ore above the preuent water level, sufficient to last for many yeara, and it would have been manifest foolhbueatJ to continue costly opera tloufl at depth when there was plenty to be done with much larger margin of profit. The men who are moBt familiar with the distriut are ho con fident in tbe ooutinuauce of the ore bodies that they are planning to cut them at dopths of 1,500 to 2,000 feet. Thla work Ih being planned and undertaken, not by viBiotiariea, but by men of practical mining experience, who are using tbeir own resource to back their convictions. Mining Investor. $49,000,000 GUGGENHEIM CO. MINERAL PRODUCTS IN UNITED STATES cave out "I). II. " on the rook wall of his refuge from HavageH, thero to be read with wistful focllugH by Mioho who now dwell in fair Kentucky. The proHpector Ih alwaya a liar. He cannot help it. The bright hiiii Hhlue refleolH from the Htiow uiiishch which cover IiIh beloved rockH, the viihI HtrechcH of mountain ranges, looking like a froen ocean spread before him iih he gazes from a star striking peak, the vivid sunaetH which hoadmlruHalmoHt daily, theoxnggora tiotiH of the atmoHphere, IiIh natural Hxhuborauce and abnormal hump of hope all the.se make him a liar even with hliiiMelf. Hlt'MHiul be the proHpector; and may he, when IiIh dava are numbered, do part to a realm where every rift In the clouds discloses to his fiiHoiuated eye a pay streak of gold, and may he at least depart to a place wheie there are plenty of canned HoHtou baked beaiiH, and a HUlllcleuoy of baking powder, how bosom and flour, for the proHpector Ih the man who IIikIh the miiieH that furulHli the gold for the world to do business on. Curse him not, ye lulldolH. (Juuter, Colorado, (luidnii. Deep Mining in Cripple Creek. To predict the future yield of any mining district Ih h dllllcult tusk becaiiHe the conditions under which incut ores are deposited are aa yet too imperfectly understood, and the deponlHt theuiHolveH are usully too erratic in form and diHtri button to give ceortltudo to aiich predictioiiH, itveu when they are baHed upon a careful study of the history and present condition of the district. It Ih agreed by practical mining men that only actual work underground cau definitely determine what there la in the way ol mineral bodies. In Cllr.lu county, Colorado, it wIih de clared at one time that 1,00(1 feet from the hii rf ace wiih the limit of the paying ones, yet in tbe C'ullfnlinlu mine, the shaft wiih sunk more t tin n twice that depth without (Uncovering any materiel diminution, either in quantity or Uiilily of the mineral. At Cripple Creek, the docpont tdnift Ih on the Aiiieiicun Niiglo nt l.fiOO feet. The Mliielienrd Ih almont that deep and the Last Dollar over 1,'J00 feet deep, all without essential change of ore. At 1,100 feet in the Cold Coin the oie Ih stronger mil better thau It win above. It la true that opetatoi-H have thus far coiiliued their work to the onus above 1,000 feet, The United States geological uurvoy divlelon of tho department of the Interior, Iiiih, under the direction of David T. Daly, chief of the division, and by authority of Hon. Charles D. Waolott, director of the miut, com pilod and iHUied an elaborate tabu luted statement, Hhowiug the min eral products of the United States for the calendar yeara 1801 to 100.'), In oIuhIvo, with a capitulation showing the total value of mineral products hIiico 1H80. Tho metallio products, such iih iron, sliver, gold, copper, lead., etc., for 180-1 were 218,:i82, 110. During tho succeeding seven years the increase was gradual, until the production in 10011 reached 121,:tlH,008. Oddly enough, there was no metallic tin produced lu this ci uutry during the period named, except 20 short tons of coucoutrates shipped from South Carolina in 15)011. 'eil.k flt-.. I. I I 1.1 VlM.t.l .l.tftu U.Wlll ..L .in iiiiii-iiimiiiuu 1'iuiiuiivn, nuuu lin coal, clay, nhraslvo materials, pig monts, etc., amounted to $ni!7,007, 270 lu 1801, with it phenomenal rate of iuoroiiHO until iu 100!), dii-lug which year the total was $1,110, 7 'J I. Ti (III. The gold production during this period wiih 9:i0,r00,000 iu 1801 and 7:i, 00 1,700 in lOOil, the rate of yearly increase being almost mathe matically exact. The total value of miueral pro ducts, metallic uou-metallic and uiiHpecilled, was in 1880, f.'IOO.IUO, 000. This increase was gradual uu- til 1802, during which year produc tion dropped nearly ninety millions below the output of the previous year. The total product for the last quarter of a century has been 10,. 00f), 180,278. BLACK SUITE MILL IS RUNNING AGAIN M. Dexter, engineer of the lllack Kutte company, received word Satur day to report tor duty at once, as milling Iiiih been resumed. The cleanup was mid to have been tho best yet madc.--Cirent County News. ( itinera! Manager O. C Wright, who lecently returned to his head quarters iu humpter from a visit to the lilack llutte mine, confirms the anove news. He says that cold weather uecessitiated a short shut down, during which time under grouud work was kept up. He ex pects a profitable spriug seasou of operations at the lilack llutte placers. Don't Go to St. Louis 'Till you call at or write to the Chicgo, Milwaukee and St. Paul nil! road. Office 1H4 Tin id Street, Portland, Oregon. Low rates to all poiuts East, iu couenctiou with all trausooutiueutals. W. S. ROWE, General Agent., Portland. Oregon. A press dispatch from New Vork, dated tbe 20th instant, says: The terms under which control of the Guggenheim Exploration company will pass Into tbe hands of tbe Ameri can Smelting fc Refining company have practically been settled. It is proposed to form a joint corporation with a capital of 140,000,000, hair of which is to be 0 per cent cumu lative preferred aud half common stock. Tho preferred shares are to bo divided into two clases, series A and H. Of "A," 817,000,000 will be issued, and of "D," $7,000,000. It ib proposed to increaeo the A stocks by 85,500,000 at some future day, making the entire hsue of pre ferred uhare 8:10,000,000. The exploration compauy will turn over to the new corporation its major ity holdings In the Wostoru Mining company of Colorado, the Velardeua Mining & Smelting company of' Mexico, all tho stock of the- Federal Lead company of Missouri, and the shares of various othor properties, located chiefly iu Mexiao. After spreading out until it has domiuated tho smelting industry of two continents, the American Smelt ing &. Refining company ia now branching out to acquire the mining properties owned by the Cuaggeubeim Exploration compauy. It was tbe Guggenheim family that created the sraeltiug trust, aud at tbe same time tbe (lUggeuheitiH formed their ex ploration company, as a separate concern to operate iu tuiuoe. Gold-silver-lead-oopper mines in Mexico aud Coloiado have been its Hold. It was organized in June, 1800, under the laws of New Jersey, with a capital of 817,000,00, shares 810 par aud 810.500,000 issued. I The American Smelting it Refining compauy was organized iu April, 1800, with a capital of 8100,000, 000, half couimou aud half 7 per cent preference cumulative shares. It owns smelters ill ovor tho United States. Mexico aud Cnile. It re cently bought the Everett smelter from Charles Sweeny's foderal com pany. 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