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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (March 22, 1905)
Wednesday, March 22, 19 SUMPTER GOLD FIELDS BEATS NEVADA CAMPS DREDGE BUILDERS ARE ALL BUSY PAID A NIGKLE FOR $7000 GOLD THE SUMPTER MINER .- William h'lint, the mining export, who reproMeiiti h IjIu 'UHlurn devel opment syndicate aud who quietly dropped Into Sumpter h fw wooks ago on h trip of Inspection or this camp, departed yesterday afternoon for Utah. " 4i Owing to tho limited time Ht his disposal .he. waa able to visit only tho mother lodn mlnoH on Canker Croek. The pHrtiuular diIhhIoij which brought him to Suiupter was to oxamino tho Little Craokar gold mlue, ahove JJourue, of which Don L. Willard la general manager. In conversation w.th a Minor re porter ho Haid: "This Ih one of tho host camps I hnvo evor vieltod. Forming a con elusion from what I hnvo hooii of tho Craokor Crook district hiIiiuh, I omit without liiiallitiiny miiI without eqtil vooiitlon, pronounce it a groat camp. Tho Hlriiutuiul unmlUloiiH aro mag nificent. Kvory available olomont for successful mining, tho way of timhor, water, ullmiitiu condition, HoooHHlhlllty. etc., .are favorable. l'or (IiIh roaHon I cannot iiiiiluraliuid for tho 1 1 to of mo wliy iiiim hIioiiIcI loavothh oamp and join tho wild stampede to Nevada. 41 1 have boon over every foot of the territory uumpriHod in the hoom STATE VACAN1 LANDS 23.000.000 ACRES HomoHiiokor travel Into Oregon has caused many to ask whore thono people are to Hnd Iioiiioh in the Htato, many IiiiIiik f the opinion that all the good laud in Oregon haH hoon taken up, says tho Portland Telegram. That thlH opinion h without fouud:. tiou in fact, Is demonstrated hy tho IlKiiroH puhllMhod herewith, whloh net forth that the state of Oregon han more than 2:1,000,000 acre of )aud, of all classes, still open for entry. Title to fully ono-thlid the area of tho state yet remaliiH with the govenmaut. JOf course, it Ih uot lualutaiuod that ail of this laud Ik iiiltabie for far us, hut much of it la of a iiimtity that will hoar con version into homos, whloh Ih Hin dered portrilble under the homestead not. Throughout the WW counties of Oregon them IhiiiIh are .diHtrlhutod, and Union miuuty alone, has i:i!l,820 aoroH yet Hiilijoet to ei)tr. in addition to tlie ahove, it Ih otdi mated that three are fully 2ti0,QJ0 uureH of Htale laud yet unsold. There are iueuded in the MUli and lUUh wot Ion ot ever; towushlp, or IhiiiIh In lieu thereof, ami are ottered at 2. 00 per auru, without settlement, iu quantltloi uot to exceed II'JO acres to ouch purchaser. Payments may lie made In live annual payinouts ot litl cunts per aore, with interest at tho rule of 0, 7 and H per cent per iiuiuitii upon the deferred paymentH. "Briug in your ore," say iho local manager of the ore exhihit. The bulldlug is now In shape fur oeou pauoy. The varioiiH mem hem of the hoard of mauler have heeu do uotl-tied. camps of Tonopah, Uoldtleld, Bul frog, Oiiwleh, Lida..oud Death Valley. 1 have divided my last drop of water with slok-hoartod prospectors dowti iu that God-foraskou aountry. I have whauked up my last hit of grubiiud on more than one occnHion have whauked up my money for grub stakoi. ThiH haa heen in pursuit of a deHlro to loaru the exact conditions prevailing iu Nevada, and I found out. I would rathor invest 8100, 000 iu the Sumpter Hold fleldH than forty centa iu Nevada. Tbh may sound odd to those whose knowledge of thedosert atate Ib uonfluod to hoom nowspaper articles, hut it is a definite uoiiuluHiou dodueod from personal observations and grounded on tho firmest premisoH. "Craokor Crook, goologlcally speaking, is wonderful. The mother lode up there will produoo for hun dreds of years. Ho far, tho surface Is morly wittered. Scores of now mlnoB will inovla! ly ho oponed along the main lode,aud the parallel veins will in due time hu dotted with big pro ducers 'I don't usually hucomo outhual iiHtio when discussing the morits of u mluinu camp. I make an exception In tho case or tho Sumpter district. As 1 said before, it is groat." ENDORSES "STOP OFF AT BAKER" SCHEME Tody a The Miner receivod a letter from Cyrus Sklnuor, of Princeton, Iowa, iu which ho says: "Dour SirH 1 am with you on "Stop oir at linker and come to Sumpter," as per your article ou March H. Although 1 never have hoon in your town, i have quite a huiiuh of money in Sumpter mines and have heeu speaking h good word for Sumpter for two years. If you fellows publish a booklet on Sumpter ami any other matter for distribu tion, seud me a bunch and 1 will scatter It among the people 1 know who are going to Portland this sum mer. 1 will be there in May or iluue. " HIh suggestion is, of course, a good one. Sumpter has never, meauiug Its citizens collectively, IhhuoiI a piece of printed matter descriptive of the camp or the dis trict. Individual promoters mid the newspapers have done it all. Cleaver Brothers' Chicago Offiee. Cleaver llrothers have opened au otlloe iu suit 000 Old Colony Build lug, 2D:t Dearborn street, Chicago, which is iu charge of til mar ti. Cleaver. They are financing the In diana Mining company, owning a cop per property iu Union couuty, of which frequent favorable mention has been made In these columns. They aro also owners of the Prairie City towusite, aro dealing iu m I lies and tlm but lauds. In a business letter to Tho Miner, Mr. Cleavet eays that he is doing a big business and extends au Invltatlun to all of his Oregou friends ami acquaintances to call ou him wneu iu Chicago. Captain Robert Winters, Manager of tho New England Dredge company, operating in UoIbo Basin, haB re turned from Boston, where he went to confer with the officials of the company. He reports that the com plications growing out of the death of Mr. Souther, who organized tho company, have all been cleared up and the company is now about pre pared to proceed with the equipment of its property with additional dredges. It baa been determined to put on two machines of the greatest capac ity. They will be of the Now Zia Jatid type and each will have a capac ity of 100,000 yards a mouth. When it came to looking up builders for the proposed dredges, it was found tho principal manufac turers had orders ahead that would keep them busy for many mouths. Tho two leading makors uf that kind of maahineiy wore found to have six largo dredges, ouch under contract, iu addition to other work, nud would ho kopt busy for six months boforo now work could bo token up. Notwithstanding the probable do lay iu getting tho machinory, tho company expects to have the two dredges orocted by Decern bor, so thoy will bo ready to go iuto oporatiou next spring. There is ono serious problem con fronting the company; this is the difficulty Iu aoouring electric power. It baa boeu hoped aud plauued to use such power on the plaut, but conditions are such that it may be necessary to depeud upon steam. For the operation of the machines fiOO horse power will be needed, but when it came to contracting for such a supply it was found no oue was iu a positiou to make a contract to de liver it. Tho field has been beatou over again aud agaiu without a solu tion of the problem having bnon reached. The company cannot defer the improvement anothor yoar, aud it may tborefore bo obliged to arrtugo for tho uso of steam. Boise States man. If Your Are Not Particular. Don't travel over the Illinois Central, as auy old road will do you and we don't waut your patronage; but if you aro particular and waut the best aud mean to have it, ask the tickot agent to route you via the Illinois Central, tho road that runs through solid vestibule trains be tween St. Paul, Omaha, Chicago, St. Louis, Memphpis aud New Orleaus. No additional charge is made for a seat iu our reclining chair cars, which are fitted with lavatories and smoking rooms, aud have a porter iu attendance. Kates via tho lllnols Central are the lowest aud we will be glad to quote them iu conueotiou with auy trauscuutiuental Hue. J. C. LINDStiV, T. l- & P. A. 142 Third street, Portlaud, Oregou. B. II. TRUMBULL, Commercial ageut, 142 Third street, Portland, Oregou. PAUL II. THOMPSON, Freight and passenger agent, Colmau bul'd lug, Seattle, Washington. Buy your shoes from Johns; every pair guaranteed. nmJLJ-mmm . A recent press 'dispatch from Ash land,' this state, tells, the following interesting stery: Compromise of a suit at law,, which has attraoted un usual interest in this part of the state, has just been accomplished and tbe case dismissed and stricken from the docket of the circuit court at Jacksonville, where it wbb left by a disagreement of the jury at the last term of court. The suit was known as tbe "tin can case," and involved the ownership of a mm of mouey found in a tin can burlel under an old chicken house on the farm of Roberta & U'Neil, in tbe central part of tbe Rogue river valley, some dozen or more years ago. The Danielaon boys, then small kids, were engaged, according to their story, in cleaning out the chicken house, wneu they found tbe can of money, which thoy afterward estimated to amount of 87000 in value, being 820, S10 and 85 gold pieces. They took it to Mrs. Roberts at tho farmhouse, who gave them a nickel aud told thorn the Lurd would reward thorn for thoir bouesty. Years rolled by aud the boys de cided to bring a suit tu recover the money and interest, as found prop erty, and suit was commeuood, Tbe caso has been in the courtB for sonio time, being thrown out on a techni cality first, carried to tbe supreme court, new proceedings Instituted aud disagreement of trial jury fol lowing, until now, just before tbe matter was tu come up again, It baa been anuounoed that the case has been settled outside of court by the payment of tbe sum ot 80000 by Roberts & O'Neil to tbe Danielson brothers, each side paying their own law expenses, which have beeu quite heavy. Roberti & O'Neil is a wealthy firm of farmers ot this valloy, aud ot oxcelleut geuoral reputation, uover having beeu accused ou any more serious phargo than that, perhaps, of squeeziug the eagle ou tbe dollar a little too tightly to make themselves popular. Their contention in de fending the suit was that tbe can of money found, which they did not deuy, held from 9500 to 81000, they did not know exactly, instead of the 17000 claimed by tbe boys, aud that It was their property, tbe can having been burled under the chicken home for safe keeping by Mrs. Roberts. It is said that tbe compromise was accepted by the defendants only out of deference to Mrs. Roberts, who is quite aged aud whose health was threatened bv the strain whiob thd trial of the case aud the conse quent pubHcity occasioned her. Strong Railroad Argument. L. Hirsoblaud, the wholesale liquor man from Baker City, passed through Sumpter this afternoon on bis way borne from Bourne. "Tbe strougest argument," said he, "in favor ot a railway from Sumpter to Bourue, is furushed by thv condition ot the road up tbe gulch. It's awful. Ou account of the big ojld suap in December, the gruuud froze to a depth of at least three feet. It is uow gradually thawing out, with tbe result that there's practically- do bottom."