The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-30
He HAS A new ELDORADO
General Warren Says BE Has
Found Second Butte.
is LOCATED IN OREGON
Sumpter Will Be the Center-A Great
Placer Claim Which for Thirty
Years Has Never Failed
to Produce.

General Warren has discovered a new
Observation-Disclosures of his numerous
second Understanding to the follow
ing from the Spokane Chronicles:
General Charles s. Warren, who re-
Gently visited the mining region of
opment that has been made in the vi
cinity OF Sumpter in the past few
years is of very large proportions.
''Sumpter," said he, in an interview
the other day, 'is in my judgment des-
tined to become the center of new
Eldorado The Blue mountains where
the John Day, Powder and Burnt riv-
ers head, have been a gold producing
country for nearly 40 years. All the
tributaries ran rich in placers, which
in the early days were worked by the
old Mexican arrastra process, down
to sulphides, when the base ore was
encountered, and the country outside
worked out. Later practical miners de-
veloped quartz.
LAS yet you hear but little of east
ern Oregon, but it will not be so long
Those who worked quartz mines some
years ago accumulated experience, but
little money, and it was left for peo-
pie who had faith in the fire assay
to develop the mines that are rapidly
making the country famous. A CEN
sus taken at Sumpter last February
gave the place III people, the camp
now has 1900 1t is the end of the
Sumpter Valley railroad, which was
built many years ago by some sawmill
men from Salt Lake, who little dream
ed of the riches in minerals the sur
wv hi
camp is the center of a country so
miles square that is all rich in gold
at least I believe it will so prove,
though l only know particularly con-
corning the immediate vicinity of
Sumpter, but 1 am informed excellent
returns are being had from all parts
of the territory.
within the heart of Sumpter is a
great placer claim, which for more
than 3S years has never failed to pro-
duce, and project is being floatei to
establish the greatest dredging plant
on the continent for working Powder
river and Cracker creek. Near Sumpter
is the Red Boy mine, with a mile and
a half of development, working a 20
. foot ledge, which goes $15 to the ton
in gold. 1t will be placed on the Lon
don market in a short time on a basis
of $15,000,000. Then there is the Ron
ANA, recently sold to the Standard
Oil company for 81 900 by GeiSer
Brothers, who developed it into a
| dividend payer; the E. & E., from
which John Longmaid got 100000 in
dividends; the North Pole, owned by
Barring Brothers, (which is down 900
feet and has 16 feet of pay: the Bats
ley & Elkhorn. dividend payer; the
Branzette, which John Burke bought
for $4,000 and sold for $1,OOOOOO; the
Bunker Hill, bought by Captain c. H.
Thompson and Angus Mcqueen for a
song and sold to Rufus Pope & Co.
for 100000: the Columbia, for which
81 500, 600 was declined; the Obex, sold
recently to an English company for
100000 the Golconda, which actually
took out 100000 in go minutes, owned
| by English & Son of Danville. H.. and
the Cougar, for which $250000 was re-
! fused. These are only a few of the
more important mines tributary to
| Sumpter.
| "Sumpter is not a Butte as yet, but
| from the town nine stage lines radi-
ate, running daily stages to Canyon
City. Prairie, Austin, Susanville. Gran
| lite. Clifton. Bourne. Bonanza, Lazy
| Jim, Red Boy, Cable Cove, Beleview
| and other camps. all of which are
| obliged to come to Sumpter to reach the
outside world. To reach Sumpter you
| take the Oregon Short Line to Baker
| City, and from there the Sumpter Val
ley road. This being the only practi-
| cal outlet for so great a mining region
| Baker City is bound to be the great
| commercial center and Sumpter the big
mining town of eastern Oregon You
| will hear from this country in the
| time to come