The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1900-06-20
INTERESTING FACTS.
General Mining Conditions
Here Most Favorable

A correspondent of the Spokesman
Review sizes up the situation hereabouts
as follows:
Amidst general activity in the eastern
Oregon gold fields placer mining is this
year reviving to a considerable degree.
Several new claims have recently
been staked and in some instances
large amounts have been taken out
In a very short time. On Span.
ish gulch 5000 was taken out in
two weeks and on Salmon creek two
Chinamen washed out $3.50 in I3 days.
On Kolb's gulch single miner washed
out $500 this spring and party Of six
miners made $50 per day by shoveling
dirt into sluice boxes. In free gold
quartz ledge a pocket was opened which
yielded $500, and a piece Of rock contain.
ing &8 was found in the dirt that badger
had thrown out of whole.
Hundreds Of prospectors are busy scan.
ming the country in search Of the yellow
metal and almost every day new
quartz Is brought In to be assayed.
Sumpter Is becoming a great mining
center, and Is attracting the attention
Of many eastern capitalists looking
for chances for investments. Inquiries are
received almost every day from eastern
men in regard to the mines Of this section,
and many representatives Of capital have
been out to look at the mines.
Surrounding Sumpter within radius
Of 20 miles are over 1000 quartz locations,
2s Of which are large producers and 200
others which have over 5000 worth of
development work done on them. With.
In the same radius are perhaps $50 placer
mines that are worked annually and pay
well. Besides these mines copper has
been located in large amounts.
In the GolcOnda mine, one Of the richest
In this district, ore running as high as
10000 per ton In gold has been taken
out. Other regular producers Of this
section are the Columbia, Cougar,
Badger, Union, Companion, Bonanza,
Red Boy, North Pole, lbex, Baisely.
ElKhorn, Virtue and Conner creek, which
together yield annually over sI,soo.ooo.
There are besides these mines ten rregu.
lar producing mines that average about
$I7s,oo year and several new producers
that show an output Of about SIoo, 900
per month, or 81, zoe, 900 per annum.
The total amount taken from placers
during 1899 was about $6oo, 900, most Of
which was shipped to San Francisco,
Seattle, and Boise. II is estimated that
between $4,000, 900 and s., 900 900 will be
taken from the Greenhorn district this
year. A large amount of improvement
work is in progress in this district. Sew.
eral new mills are being constructed and
number of the old ones are adding more
stamps and other machinery. Every day
from fifteen to twenty.four horse loads
Of freight and ten or twelve loads Of
machinery leave the Sumeter depot for
the surrounding mines and several car.
loads Of freight and machinery are always
waiting to be transferred to the mines.
The McEwen stage line keeps eight
stages busy and two other lines are doing
well. Preparations are being made to
build an electric road from Sumpter TO
Granite and Bourne, which will greatly
increase the amount of business between
these places, as it will open the road to
several other mines that are only waiting
an easy method by which they can be de.
veloped.