The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1900-01-10
THE NEW ELDORADO.
Surnpter Has More Dividend
Payers Than Three States.

General G. S. Warren Is in the city
visiting friends and interesting Canadian
capital In the new Eldorado. He says:
'There are but two new stars In the heav.
ems In the mining world that are now all
brilliant, Sumpter and Cape Nome. Cape
Nome will do for the young men and ad.
venturous spirits. Cape Nome Is now
closed to the outside world and will remain
SO until next June. Sumpter Is always
open, Is at the end Of railroad, and Is
the center Of a mining district, so far as
has been explored, second to none upon
earth. Within 20 miles Of Sumpter are
more dividend.payers than In the states Of
Montana, Washington and Idaho com.
bined. When left there, less than Is
days ago, there were ~ cars Of mining
machinery standing on the Sidetrack
awaiting shipment to the different mines
in the vicinity Of Sumpter. There are
now II quartz mills running, u In process
Of construction and Mr.. Unzicker, the gen.
eral agent of Fraser & Chalmers, of Chi.
cago, has Al applications for mills, cya.
nide plants and hosting works. Prosper.
ity seems to be in the air. Over 500 Of
the best Of the Butte miners are now In
the district. The many sales that have
been made In the past three months, the
marvellous growth Of the town, which Is
up to date, with its waterworks, the equal
Of any In America, two banks, both In
two.story brick structures, 3oxioo each,
hotel for which contract has been let,
which Is to be Of three stories and made
of brick, a townsite unsurpassed for
natural beauty, the distributing and min.
ing center Of what may properly be des.
ignated as the Rand Of America, town
Insignificant, forgotten and overlooked ~
months ago, makes Il the Mecca and the
bonanza land for 1900 for practical miners
all over the continent. Every afternoon
about I3o there Is drawn up In front Of
Mr.. Thomas McEwen's stage Office from
six to ten coaches headed for the surround.
ing mining camps. Hank Monk, jr., gets
his orders, and when he starts off and
turns on one wheel Il reminds us Of the
early days when the $40 gold pieces went
over the bar and no change was returned.
In word, the Sumpter district Of Oregon
Is such mining district as has not been
developed in the United States for the
past 20 years.
"Several citizens Of Rossland have In.
vested In the Sumpter section and can
now sell out at profit Of 500 per cent.
"Of course the success Of all mining
camps depends upon the value Of its
mines. II does not take even laymen
long to be In Sumpter, and see the gold
bricks chucked off the coaches and on the
sidewalks, to become convinced that he Is
In a gold producing country. The mining
money Is now trending that way. The
stories Of Bret Harte and John Hay are
being re.enacted every day. We have
there John Oakhurst, the outcast Of
Poker Flat, and Tennessee's partner, and
all the rest, two generations after the
originals were active. Virginia City In
its palmy days, Treasure Hill, after cross.
Ing the desert, Pioche, Cripple Creek and
the Rand are now altogether mingled In
one, the Sumpter district Of Oregon.
Shaker City Is not rival Of Sumpter.
It Is, however, to Sumpter what t'enver
Is to Cripple Creek, what Salt Lake Is to
Pioche; what Carson Is to Virginia City;
what Johannesburg Is to the Rand. There
seems to be a mistaken idea on the out.
side as to the relationship that exists be.
t,ueen the fxo nlaceS Baker and SUNNI.