The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1900-03-28
MUCH WINTER
WORK DONE.
w. c. Calder Reports On a
Trip to the Greenhorn.

from Ulp INTO tnc oIcclnOIn country,
the first time he has been out there since
last fall. From here to near Granite, he
says, the snow has all disappeared from
the south and east slopes, which reveals
the large amount of work which has been
done during the winter. All along on
either side of the road many new claim
stakes have been set, old ones changed
and prospects relocated; while on scores
of properties assessment and development
work has been done during the past four
months.
At Granite he found a lively busy camp.
A number of substantial buildings have
been erected, but operations along this
line have been hampered by the lack of
lumber.
Lawton, he thinks, will make a good
camp, too, surrounded as II Is by group
of dividend paying mines. The promo.
ters Of the enterprise are progressive, en-.
ergetic men who are pushing the propo.
sition inteligently. Two feet of snow is
still on the ground, which has to be shov.
eled off whenever tent is set or build.
ing commenced. The place now consists
OF eight buildings and thirteen large tents
and more of both are going in daily,
Alamo has hardly started yet. The To-.
cation is an advantageous one and there IS
no telling what the camp may develop
into in a few months or weeks.
lie pronounced the Little Giant one Of
the best and most promising mines in the
district. The tunnel Of the lower work.
ings is now in $50 feet. The engineer eN.
poets to encounter the ledge, cut above, at
1000 feet from the mouth OF the tunnel, or
$50 feet further in. The machinery tor
the mill Is all on the ground and much Of
It already installed.
Mr.. Calder's objective point was the
Inter- Mountain group, ten miles beyond
Granite, in the Greenhorn, in which prop
erty he Is largely interested. There are
three claims, the lnter.Mountain, the
Cayuse and the Silver Hill. Work has
been in progress all winter, under the SUI
pervision of Z. J. Hahn.
All three of these claims show up well
under development. On the lnter-Moun.
tain there Is shaft 36 feet deep, uncov.
ering two feet of ore going better than
500, with a stringer carrying even higher
values. A soo.foot tunnel has been driven
on the Cayuse. The ledge was cut at
lao feet and on this they are now drifting.
From the 2o.foot shaft above carload OF
ore has been shipped TO the smelter,whieh
netted 500 in gold per ton.
Much the greater portion OF the work
has been done on the Silver Hill mine.
Here a tunnel cut The ledge at depth OF
90 feet from the surface, on which i7o
feet has been drifted, finding good ore all
the way. A Wine has been sunk 81 feet
through ore, demonstrating that the ore
body is at least IA2 feet deep. Much Of
this rock has been shipped, netting In car
load lots, from SIoo to $500 a ton. Mr..
Calder says this makes the best showing
of any mine in the district without mill,
except the lbex. 1t Is variously estimated
that on the dump there is at present from
10000 to 40, 900 tons Of ore.
A company has been incorporated. un'
der the name of the Inter- Mountain Gold
Mining company, to work the property.
Ample capital has thus been provided and
work will be pushed energetically. In
sixty days a road will be built and hoist
Ing works put In. To block out 100000
worth of ore by November I, Is the task
which the company has assigned itself.