The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02

the lbex. which was sold last February. for S65 900, and resoid in December for $500 900. and whose product for this year Is estimated at the full amount of it's pnr- chase price; and a hundred other pro- ductive or prospective b0napZas.
 Eleven miles northwest of SumDtsr lies the Cable Cove district, abounding h rich mines and prospects and If miles north west is Grants. the center Of score of mines that would be wonders anywhere but here. Four years ago the owners of the Red Boy were too poor to pay freight charges on small shipment Of material They managed by hard husting to bor- row tho necessary money, and the mine is new turning out scr GOO a month. or over $500. 900 year. in gold bricks-and nego- tlations are pending for its sale te Lon don syndicate at g 900 900 The Cougar Montana. Bellevue, Magnolia. May Queen. Little Giant and scores of others are among the snre bonanzas of the camp.
 Sixteen miles west of Sump,er, on the came vast northeast and south west miner al dIks, on which are all these mines. is the Bonansa, whose history dwarfs all the romanccs Of the orient. A half interest in 1t could not be sold few years ago for S250 A young boy, driving an express wagon in Baker City. took hold of it and with the aid of his mother and sisters. de. vel0ped it till he was able to sell the con- trol of it for S75O 900. Now, with a 40- stamp mill. it is paying $40 600 a month. and is said by experts to have from S5.- 900 900 to Ss 900 900 of ore in sight. In the same neighbOrhood are the D0h Juan Imperial, P,x, Phoenix, Banzette, Snarr. Intrinsic. Van Anda and scores of other big dividend-payers including the Diadem which has just been capitalized at $l, 900, GOO.
 About 20 miles west of the Bonanza and 3C miles from Sumpter. is the Susan . vile district, whose pacers are banning out tens of thousands of dollars every year. and where the Badger .Cabell. Stock ton and Skyscraper bid fair to take their places among the big producers. And at Canyon City. 50 miles southwest of Sumpter. where g.. 500 000 has been washed out of the pIacers, is the Great Northern mine, from whose $200, = u0o-,o-the-ton ore Ike Guker picked a fortune with hammer and an old pocket. knife.
 All over this gold-strewn wonderland ''" u'Se''NA'SS htC octnk -clitost hourly-nade. During the first week ill December Prospectors Cuibertson and Bee located two claims five mics southeast of Sunpter. and six days afterward sold them for S20. GOO. From a small piece of float rock on the just-fonnd Concord. nearly Sa00 was pounded out in mortar. On the old Sumpter and Granite stage road, eight mites northwest of town. a ledge of ore tive miles long. and running S29 to the ton in free gold. was found December 10; and J. E. Stoddard has just discovered that his timber land ad- joining Sumpter on the south yields Si 50 cubic yard as gold placer. and l 900 or l c 0l0 similar cases might be mentioned
 All this vast, and as yet almost unex- plored mineral empire Is tributary to Sumpter. Every ton of machinery and SUD- plies brought m must come through Stump ter: and every ton Of ore and con- cenirates. and every pound or ounce of bullion. dust or nuggets shipped out must go through Sumpter. It is the metropolis Of what promises with every probability of fulfilling the promse-to rival Cripple Creek, the klDndike and the Transvaal, as Bonanzaland-a !" klondike at Heme. F. DOMAIN.