The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1900-12-26
Facts and Figures From the
Company's Books

you at this time.
] have for the past two months been So.
journing at this little town on the q. r.
II NJ, thirty miles east Of Baker City,
which IS the metropolis of the Burnt River
mining district. II is an embryo city,
known to postal authorities as Express,
but to the railroad world as Durkee
station.
Although yet IN It's swaddling clothes,
II Is growing and bids fair, In time, to be.
come Of considerable importance. Along
the banks Of the Burnt river, or creek,
there is u belt OF low land, varying In
width from few hundred feet TO . quarter
Of a mile. which is adapted to agriculture
and is mostly utilized as meadow and hay
ranches. As the adjacent hills and noun.
tains afford good grazing In summer, the
section Is naturally a stock country. Al.
falta hay Is principally grown and sells In
the stack for four dollars per ton. IN ad.
dition. placer mining IN many OF the
gulches coming down at intervals into the
river proper, has for many years been car.
sled on; while the mountains have numer.
Gus quartz lodrs which have been devel.
oped just enough to prove that rock exists
IN paying quantities. IN two or three ~.
stances mills Tor reduction have been
erected, but II can be safely asserted that
no systematic aud extensive quartz mining
has been carried on here.
today made q visit 10 one Of these par.
TALLY developed properties which is known
rs the Burnt River Gold Mining aud Mil.
ing company, but usually called the Gold
Hill mine, Colonel James a. Painting I've.
my the general manager.
II is located on Gold tilll mountain four
miles east oi Dufkre. The company is
composed oi Cincinnati aud New York
capitalists, who have been IN possession
about tour years. During that time eN.
ienSlve development work has been made
and the Indications today point with ter.
'ain'y to is hring very valuable prop.
rfiv.
Composing the property are twenty-five
claims, altogether, and they cover an area
oi over six hundred acres, for which q
patent has been granted. There has been
run 1870 ieet Of tunnels and twice AS
many oi ttos>tu,>, prospect tunnels, up.
raises, e,t. The company has a ten
stamp mill completely equipped with 1000
,,ound stamps, ore crushrr, four concen.
traitors and a capacity oi thirty tons day,
located on a creek one quarter OF q mile
from the mouth OF the tunnel. There Is |
comfortable two story house occupied as !
residence aud office ny the superintendent,
a boarding aud bunk house, assay office,
barns and other ou'houses.
The greatest depth attained BY the tun.
mel Is 700 feet, aud AT the end a new ledge |
was struck day before yesterday, ore from /
which came out today while | was pres.
rn'. OF the mos, promising character. II
Is highly mineiallIed, and while no assay /
has, as yet, been made from il, the tore
man assured me II would show values
very high, Judging from the character OF
the ore and comparison With other bodies
IN the niue. OF known value, The new ,
Ind is tour ice, wide, with a streak over a I
foot vide carrying the promising ore men.
toned.
To show the general character OF the
ore was, upon request, given Access to
the books IN the assay office, In which |
we,r found the values obtained from
sample, before the mine was purchased
by the company, and upon which they