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THE SUMPTER MINER
Wednesday, April 5, 1905
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IMPORTANT MASS
MEETING
The nnaouDoeiiieut Id yesterday's
Miner tbat the Kllleu, Warner, Stew
art company bs acceded to all de
mands iu the matter of the Sumpter
Bourue railway, and bail ordered the
looal citizens' committee to proceed
wltb its work along the Hues uut
liued, whh tbe best piece of uowh tbat
has reacbod Sumpter since Mount
lialdy whh a bole In tbe ground.
A maHH nicotinic of citlzoiiH of
Sumtper nnd mining nien of tbe
Sumpter district Iihh tieon cullod for
tonight at tbe Hotel Sumpter, to
take final and definite HtepH in tbe
matter, and it Is expected tbat hh a
result of that mooting work on the
railway will begin hh hooii hh tbe
weather will permit.
Ah will he lumembered, (be Killed,
Warner, Stewart company, promoterH
ot tbe Sumpter-Mnurno railway,
agreed to furniHh thiougb a 9250 0U0
bond Ihhiic the necesHaary fundH for
ooiiHtruotlon, e(iulpmeut and opera
tion, provided the oltlzotiH of Hump,
ter, hh an evidence of good faith, and
hh an indication that they would
UHsist tint line lu evury way possible
to huuome a dividend-payer, would
subscribe for 920,000 worth of tbe
bonds. The nrigulal Hue of the old
railway projuut, of which Hanover
wh4 to have been the upper terminal,
wh chaugad to mako Bourne tbe
virtual end or the Hue, with spurs
and switches to points Hi near the big
mines of Cracker Creek hh the
toporgapby of tbe country, and tbe
limited treasury of the railway com
pany would permit. Argeemonts
weie made tbat the freight ratmi
from Cracker Creek to Sumpter
would not be greater than $1 per
ton, and thin appealed, not only
to Sumpter merobauiH and IiuhIiioxh
mnu, but to mine operators of the
upper camp hh well. A Hollciting
committee whh appointed and no
WHAT MR. SWEENEY COULD
DO WITH HIS $2,600,000
The tule of Charles Sweeuy'a lu
teresta lu tbe Federal Mining com
pacy for 12,000,000 may uot cauHe a
scare on Wall Htreet. but '2,500,000
would be a pretty big pile of mono,
anywhere If It should be paid to Mr.
Sweeuy lu actual oolu of tbe realm.
For Instance, in Mvondupole
weight It taken 17 Hllver dollars to
tiring a one pouud weight to balance.
The largMt box oar ou tbe great
freight lluei carry from 50,000 to
00,000 poundi. It would take three
of tba care loaded to their limit to
brlug Mr. Sweeuy'a 12,500,000 back
to Spokntia, should It be dialled out
to bhu ill silver.
Tbe actual amount of money lu
circulation in the United Status up
to October 1, 1004, according to tbe
New York World almanac, was
92,5J2,i:U,4 8U. riiln name table,
figuring the populatluu of the Uuited
State to be 82, 21 4.000. estimates
(hat there In I'.ll.lO circulation per
capita. If 70,000 people lu Spokane
have their full bhare of the money lu
clruulatlon in oanti it only means tbat
tbar la 92,170,000 lu circulation)
difficulty experienced in ecurlng
eubsoriptiouB to tbe full amount of
tbe bonde required by tbe piomoters
to be taken here.
A closer examination of the
plane and speaiHcatlons of tbe rail
way promotera, however, revealed
tbe fact tbat tbe (twitches and spurs
provided for by tbe K., W., S.
company were not of satisfactory
numbor or length. The Hmirue
(Jold Mining company, operating
the B & 10. mine, desired a spur
built directly to Hh big mill; tbo
Bastern Oregon Cold Mining com
pany, operating the celebrated
North Pole, one of the heaviest
shippers in tbe Cracker Creek camp.
aikori tor a Hwitch to their ore
biiiH, which wore passed ny the
main Hiioh 100 foot above aud
acrosH tbe canyon. The Columbia
Cold Mining company, operating the
Columbia mine, requested that a
ipur or extension of the main lino be
built to the brow of tbe bill bolow
Sour Hough Hat, ho tbat the Co
lumbia ore biiH could be aooosHihle
thereto. The Colcouda company
also desired closer connection with
tbe rail line, which was also true of
the North Pole No. 1, the Tabor
Fraction, Viator and other proportion
lu the Bourue camp. Lurge subscrip
tions to bonde wore scoured from
these companies, wltb tbe proviso
that their requests be granted. Tbe
soliciting committee communicated
with the Kllleu, Warber, Stewart
company, and in a telegram received
Tuesday by Chalrmau Cato Johtie the
response received was to go ahead,
uh the dcmaudH were Hccoded to.
Croat rejoicing in Sumpter follow
ed tbe receipt of this dispatch, and
touight'H meeting at thojlobhy of tbe
Hotel Sumpter Is expected to bo
Itrgoly attended.
O. C. Wright Iihh been commission-
here.
Two aud one-half million dollars
lu alive" dollara would HH a vault
10 feat high aud aveeii feet square.
It would cover an acre of ground
aud, piled dollar upon dollar lu a
slugle column, would towor aoove
the highest paak ou tbe Americau
continent.
Two aud one-half million dollars
in 92 bills would pave Kive.slde
avenue fiom Dlvlalou street to Mon
roe. If II bauk notes weie laid end
on eud, 2,500,000 of theiu would
make a Hue of silk ribbed oertlH
cates reaching almost to Taoorua ou
tba west or to Butt ou tba east.
Aud, of cou'se, oue oould go ou
estimating what wight be duua wltb
postage stamps or street oar tickets,
or beer checks. He might speculate
ou what might be doue wltb so much
money, how many beatbeua might be
kept a year in a Hindoo college at
110 a year, bow many Chinamen
could be shipped back to Hongkong
at steerage rates of 915 per, or how
many season oould be speut at Tbe
California seaside. Spokesman He-view.
A fresh lot of Cbaucelloro Cigars.
Now 5 cents, at J. E. Weaaberg'a.
Sumpter Hotel Bulldiug.
ed to draw an alignment map of tbe
proposed line for tbe enlightenment
of tbe public, and will QuIbIi tbe
work for submission at tonight's
maaB meeting.
Koughly outlined, tbe road will
run fairly straight to tbe Halfway
bouse, following the bed of Powder
river. From Halfway tbe grade be
gins to mount tbe right band side of
tbe canyon, passing Hanover bigb
above tbe river, and swinging into
Bourne in almost an air line, passing
100 feet higher tbau the Ooloonda
power bouse and tbe North Pole mill.
From Bourue tbe main Hue swings in
a horseshoe curve around tbe bead of
the gulch and crosses to 'he opposite
slope of the hill, thence down the
north Hide of tbe oauyou toward the
Columbia aud Ooloonda. At some
point to be determined later, a spur
will Htr'ke off tbe main line below
Hanover, ruuiug on a lighter grade
than the main Hue, to the North
Pole mill. Another spur will branch
off from tbo main Hue above Bourue
aud striko back to the 10. & E. mill,
piiHsiug tbo Victor aud ending at the
North Polo No. 1. The main line
continues ou ftom this latter spur to
Sour Uough Hat, midway between tbe
Colcouda aud Columbia. Tbo termi
nal will bo but a fow hundred feet
from the Columbia oro bins.
Kllleu, Warner, Stewart compuny's
urigiual estimate of cost of the lino,
oxclusivo of tbo spurs above men
tioned, wa 9200,000. It Ib prob
able that the enlarged plans will in
crease this cost by a aousidarahlo
Hgure. However, if the proposed
9250,000 bond ihaub is Insufficient to
cover tho whole aost, a larger hsue
will be made.
It la imperative that every ci.tizen
of Sumpter and every mluiug mau
lu tbe regiou between Cable Cove
aud the Sumpter smelter should be
repseut. It is of the utmost import
ance that final aud detJulte plauH be
settled, to the eud that construction
may commence at the earliest possible
moment, In order that everbyody
should enjoy the endless benefits of
this road this year.
Fortunately, tbo feeling of autag
UI1I3I1I which greeted the Hrst projec
tion of the Sumptor-Uourue railway
enterprise has died away. Tbe nar
row tooling which forced a discussion
of the probable elfeots ou looal bus!
uuss of a rail hue to Bourue Is no
longer seriounly entertained. For a
time H was strenuously pointed out
that the three or four hundred team
steiH who make Sumpter tbelr bead
quartern would Hud their occupation
goua wbeu tbe first locomotive
soieamed its way up tbe oanyon.
These teamsters are au imporiaut part
of Sumpter' wealth-producing popu
lation. They distribute tbelr earn
ings locally amoug all Hues of busi
ness aud place thereby a couaiderble
sum of money in circulation. Their
elimiuatiou from tbe commercial life
of this city is a serious proposition,
It is true, but the increased business,
cartaiu to follow au enlargement of
local trade, la couiidered as more
tbau an offset to tbe evil poiuted out
Sumpter's future rests upou tbe de
velopment of ber surroundiug wines.
Anything wnich may teud toward
tbat eud is a welcome factor.
Coustructiou of tbe Sumpter
Bourue railway will not cause a
real estate boom in Sumpter. This
is uot expected by the geutlemeu
who are most in favor of tbe en
terprise. But it will have the
effect of more firmly grouudiug
Sumpter's claim to the distinction of
beiug the central distributing point
for tbe richest striug of gold miues
lu tbe uortbwest. Add to tbat striug
of gold tuiuars such others as uubt
inevitably be developed through (tbe
provision of a cheap and rapid means
of transportation, and for every
teamster thrown out of a job by tbe
railway, there will be a dozen new
miners, each drawing pay from
mother earth, and adding directly,
net only to tbe wealth of tbe world,
but to tbe commoroial prosperity of
this particular community.
It la larg y for dlscussiou of
these phases of tbe railway question
tbat tonight's meeting has beet
called.
Mr. Jobnsreoelved today a very
important letter from D. L.
Kllleu, regarding this proposition,
which Ib of interest to everybody
hereabouts. It will be read at tbe
meetiug this evening, which alone
Bhould bring out a big orowd.
JIM WARDNER
DID NOT WALK
The death of James F. Warduer,
better kuowu as 'Mini" Wardner,
after whom tbe town iu north' Idaho
was named, iu El Paso last week,
recalls to mind a funny incident in
tho career of this best known of nil
ploueer northwestern miuors and
mining ineu. It was after Jim had
made a stake lu tbe Coeur d' Alenes
and lost It iu Alaska, tbat he walked
into the offlco of the Canadiau Pad Ho
railway tiokot ageut iu Victoria and
demauded trauapnrtation to Winue
pog. Jim exulaiued to tbe ageut tbat
be was a big gun, intimately ac
quainted wltb all tbe big guns ou tbe
C. P. R. R., tbe piesldent being bis
most iutlmate friend. Jim was broke
and be ueeded a pass. He put up
such a good aome-along talk tbat tbe
agent, fearful of iujuriug tbe feel
iugs of an intimate friend of tbe
president of tbe road, aud fearful
also of Infracting tbe rules of tbe
oompauy, wired tbe oircumstauces
to tbe general ageut ot the Hue,
winding up with the query, "Shall
I issuo pai?" The geueral agent
uever heard of Jim Warduar, so
he responded J "Don't; let Jim
walk." In transmitting the dis
patch, some intelligent oporator
omitted tbe pucutuatiou mark, aud
tbe Victoria agent received the fol
lowing cenmand: "Oou't let Jiai
walk." He didn't.
If Your Are Not Particular.
Don't travel over the lllluois
Central, as any old road will do you
aud we don't want your patronage;
but If you are particular and want
the best and mean to have it, ask tba
ticket agent to route you via tbe
Illinois Central, tbe road tbat runs
through solid vestibule traius be
tweeu St. Paul, Omaha, Chicago, 8t.
Louis, Mempbpie and New Orleans.
No additional charge is made for
a seat in our reoliniug chair cars,
which are fitted with lavatories and
smokiug rooms, and have a porter
in utteudauce.
Kates via tbe lliuois Ceutral are
the lowest and we will be glad to
quote tbem iu connection with any
trauscoutiueutal Hue.
J. C. L1NDSEV, T. F. & P. A.
142 Third street. Portlaud, Oregon.
B. H. TRUMBULL, Commercial
ageut, 142 Third street, Portlaud,
Oregon.
PAUL B. THOMPSON, Freight
and passenger agent, Colmau bui'd
ing, Seattle, Washington.