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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1905)
Wednesday, March 8, 190$ NORTON'S HANCOCK BADGER VS. SMELTER STOCKTON COMBINE NOTION SMELTER THE SUMPTER MINER A dispatch from Portland says time M. A, FoIhoiii, of Spokane, and It. A. Loiter of Hint city, roproHont lug the Hadger tluld Mining com jinny, appeared before Judge Hoi I In gor IIiIh morning to request it ditto for trial of thn on ho of tho Hadger outnpHiiy agaitiHt tho Stookton Gold and Copper MlnltiK company for a half intercut in thn Stookton claim. CI. CJ. Amori Mild John (Jearlu repre sented trin Stockton nompauy. OomiHol stated ttrnt all evldenoo had hooii tit k on by ltefero Hrodie, Hid would 1)0 transcribed hooii. lioth eldes thought they would be ready for n hearing March IK, and thiu dato wan fixed for tho trial, aa it Id the general doMlro to expedite tho hear ing. lioth F. W. Ilradloy and K. P. Kennedy, of tho Hadger ooinpany, mid W. O. (JIIiIm, residing at Huhhii vlllo, gave thoir rohuttnl testimony yoHtordity afternoon. TIiIh oIohoh the case huforo tho court will ho without, a jury, mid Hhould nut consume a day. No Htiit Iimh hooii liiHtlutod hy tho Stookton ooinpany yot iiKaliiHt tho Jiadgor for sloping ore on tho 700 level. Mr. Anion Hfatod that thlH notion would not ho brought until the proriout hearing in finished, hh tho Stockton ooinpany would natur ally (IohIto to oHtahllMh title hofore entering tho ooiii'Ih to reoover tho value of the oro.Jj .Should the Stook ton wu in the title litigation, It Im prohulile that an order of the court will hn asked to examine the (100 and 700 IovoIh of the lladgor, to deter initio if there hits hooii any oucioaoh iiionl over (ho IIiioh f hat Ldgle Valley Railroad. VoHtordity tho map work of the first 1wouly iiiIIoh of the Millie Valley railroad, on which anrvoyH have hoou jomploted, woto forwarded to the laud office fur filing end now addi tional Htii'voy work will he commune oil. Mr. ViliH ii'h ongluoorri are In tho Hold, taking advantage of the tine wonthor, and tho work will hee.xpodi tluiiHly iiuhIioiI toward Eagle Valley. Direct Information from Mr. VIiihou to tln Di'tiiuorat Ih lo the elfoct that Mr. VliiHiin hollevoK that he will lie alile to liulld tho road to Eagle Valloy and expects to Htart (uuihIi tui tion in tho Hiimiiioi- or fall. In the iiiioiiutiuio tho people mo dooply in toiontod iii Mi. Viiirtou'ri project and will Ki"' to it thoit iiiotal if not a jnoro suhi'tauiul Htippoit. - Democrat. Test of Standard Ore. Prof. II. II. Nlohohon, chief ou gluoor and general western manager .of tho K t lion, Warner. Stewart com pany, mturuod thin morning from Douvor, whore tie has hoou making an olubotato analysis of ore from ihe Standard initio, lie hart not yet .completed the tout, which will do- i term I ue tho exact character of re duction plant to bo erected at the Standard this Hummer, and will re turn to Douvor in a few days to finish the wotk. EngomHUrtholf loft today for the Mormon liasiu, expecting to remain tlii'ro for u week. lloro Ih an opportunity for the curbBtono speculator to guess at the fato of the Oregon Smeltlug aud Hoflning oompnuy. h it inoluded in the incubating ooinblue? The Portlaud Journal of recent date says: A yuutiK Htnelter combine 1b bolug engineered by Now Vork iutoreBtB which Ih intended to embrace the principal plauts of tho Pacific north woBt. II. M. Baruoh, of New York, who 1b Bald to have Americau Smelt ing & Keflnlng Interests, Ih uegotiat lug for different plauts. The pro poned combination of the Taooma aud Evorott plauts wmh the Brat pub lic intimation of the deal. Since thou it Iihh been learned that prop- oiltiouH have boon niado to other managements. Fred VV. Hradley, tho mining eu Klueer aud a law Htockholder in the Titcoma concern, Bitid at the Portland till i inoruing that noKotiatiouH woro ponding for the latter plant. "1 du not know that a proportion Iiiih boon made to the Everett man iiHomout, " Hiild he further, "but I uudortjtiiud that an effort Iihh boon made to hoouro other uorthweuteru smelters. 1 do not know whethor the plan would include the Solby plant at Ban FruolHCo, but think north woHt Ih tho propohod field." Mr. Bradley did uot care to dla ciihh the general Hituatlou further, in fact did not euro to Hpoak In re gard to any negotiations Have those he admitted were iu progroaa lor tho Titcoma smeller, In which he Ih In tereuted. He did Hity, however, that the men in the nogotiatioiiH did not roproHont the American Smelting and Itoflnlug compauy, the smelting truit organized hy the UuggoulioimH. 1). M. Haruch hat boon engaged in tho negotiations on PtiKot Sound. A well informed mining mini of thiu city Hitid till h morning that ho under Htood Hiit-uch wad promotion the pro posed Paclllc uorthwoHt combine. The Evorott plant holnuga to the A norican Smeltlug & Kollning com pany, having fallen to it in cotiuec tiou with the iIoiiIh growing out of the Federal Mining & Milling com puny combine. There Is no direct Information hh to the number of plautH under cutiHidoratiou. Hut two have boon named openly, both on Pugot Hound. Tho Trail and liouudary smelter of Hritiah Colum bin, the one Iioiiik built on tho Sullivan mine in llrialsli (Jolumbia, the Sumpter plant and the KoHwick Hiuoltor iu nurthorii Culitornia all handle outturn oron, and would prob ably be embraced within the nonpo of any Kioat Pacific uorthwoHt itmitl Kitmatiou. Prominent Portlander Here. J. T. Flandorn, a prumniout aud woulthy citizen of Portland, came up from linker City with Maimer Fuller aud luttpootod the nmolter, re truuiiiK uu the aftoruuou traiu, 11 Bayts hi visit here la of no apodal Hljtnltioanco; that he waa in llaker City to see Fred Media on buaiueaa portal tiiuu to the Lewia aud Clark fair aud merely came to Sumpter to look ovo,r the town. Notwitbataud uiK all of which, there ia aomothiuy about the iuoldeut that iudlcatea that there ia a hen ou. "The bottom has not fallen out of the Sumpter district, as lias been currently reported," snld 11. E. Nor ton, one of tho purchasers of the Ool coua mine, who baB juet returned from a viBit to the property. "Instead of the town declining, thore seems to be one of the beit eras yet ahead of it. The immeuB min ing properties in that ditsrict are practically untouched yet, from a scientific mining standpoint. Tbeie but been much superficial work, Burfaoe turning and mill promotion of these properties, but when the true development comes aud the true era of systematic mining arrives, 8umpter will make a showing that will yet startle mining circles of the Pacific CoaBt. "Hidden lu those uiouutaiua are vaBt deposits of mineral which it will requiro huudredH of thousaud) of dollars to roach, but which will suroly be uncovored. The boom days hooii) to have paaesd iu the Sumpter district aud tho day of actual dovel opmout work if now at hand. "Tho district will furnish omploy meut fur thotisaiulB of men, afford markets fur millioiiH of pouuds of produce and will yiold buormouB roturus. "Not only will Sumpter be a promineut aud flourishing camp, but uumeroiiH Htnall poiutu lu the Sump ter dintrict will hIho devolop into good mining towiiB, furulBhiiig work for huudreds of nieu. They will bo tributary to Sumpter as the chiof dlHtributiiig point in the district." Flint Oregonlau. Mill for Standard Mine. CoutraotH for delivery of 000,000 feet of Hitwlogs at tho Staudard have boon let, and will be carried out at once. The Hitwmill recently ordered by the uiiiuagement will bo installed by the time the logs arrived, aud the manufacture of lumber Ih to com tnoiro immediately thereafter With thlH work in progroHB, no doubt re uiaiiiH that the Standard mauitgoitiout InteiidH to erect a plant early iu tho hoiihou. Manager 11. II. Nicholsou will be home aoou, brluging with him the roHiilc of his exhituativo metallurgical aud milling expori meiita at Denver. With this knowl edge the management will be able to erect a uiitable concentrator, and possibly further refine the cobalt product before it is Hhipped to tho markets of the world. Dixie Meadows is Rich. Development ou tho ludepeutlouco, an extension of the Dixie Meadows, baa recently opeued up the bust ore yet mined ou thlB group. The drift iu which work was proseauted Ih to ward the Dixie Meadows end Hue, aud ia reachiug a zone whore there ia particularly strong cropping, with evidences of a good ahoot of ore. The values that have come iu the drift of late, which followa the foot wall of the lode, iudioate that the shoot bus been reached, aud fuither work ia expected to opeu a good body of milliug ore. This lode, which ia dedued for seveu or eight claims iu leugth by thorough work, has a width of from 20 to 80 feet uear the surface. The Hancock Copper Mines Com pauy of Idaho, Limited, is the name of a new company which 1b making preparations to operate extensively lu the Seven Devils district during tho coming season. The company whs very reoently organized and articles of incorporation will be tiled with the secretary of state today, by Col. C. P. Drake, who went to Uolse yesterday foi that purpose. The capital stock of the company Is 91,000,000, and the directors are Clement F. Drake, Everet P. Kbea, George A. Rahm, of Welter; John Sennett and John J. Curtis, of Wash ington, D. C. The properties of this company consists of ten claims, tdtuated on Camp oroek, about ten miles above tho town of Landoro, in the heart of the famous Seven Devils district. Tho oros are a gold-copper proposi tion nod of excellent smelting qual ties Col. Drake, the chiof promoter of tbii now corporation, states it is thecompauy's iuteutiou to vigorously proBecuto operMtous this hohbou and to get the property iu shape for the oarly erection of a smelter. The smelter will be oporatod under the Dewey process, which is that of extracting the precious metals by cbemaials whloh lu low being very successfully operated in Virginia on three por cent ores. It is the com pauy 'h iuteutiou to oxpend iu the neighborhood of 820,000 iu devel opment work aloue this year Weieor Signal. frozen Boose Not Popular. A ho o.o monger, more politoly termod a commercial traveler for a liquor house, hit our uuproteutious berg with all the oateuatlou of a Hussiitu nobleman. Ilia faco beam ing with importune, his manner efrulgeut with the groat "1 AM" and his derby resting on his over developed bump of ogotiEDj, he dropped Into a popular cafe with the diiflb of a Japanese cavulary officer. Tho best booze ou earth he bad for sale All quailed before him, but after partiikiug of a cup of cuuuige, aud stimulaitng bis temerity, the prospective customer ventuied the request that he produc his samples. With solf insurance, ho uufoldod his wares, wheu, lo aud behold, hi) bottles of booze were congealed iuto solid cakoH of ice. The would-be ctiHtomer informed him that it has beeu his custom to handle whiskey only iu Hh liquid form, aud if ho took his goods he would have to sell it by tho chunk. Customers here sold whiskey tlftoou cents per drink, aud it would be difficult to truiu old customers to put up a bit for a bite, two bite for two bites. The good old way still goes iu P. C. Prairie City Miner. Ore from California. The local smelter is receiving ore from uortheru Califoriuia, two more carloads having beeu delivered from the Sberidau, 1110 miles south of the state bouudary. The Sheridan is in Selby aud Keswiok territory, but the management here desired the proJuot of this property, and made a bid that brought it to the eastern Oregon camp.