The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1901-07-31

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Many other claims in the district show
sufficient to warrant their owners in de
veloping the Quartzburg district.
Again passing down Dixie creek, turn
ing our backs on the beautiful John Day
valley, which we could never leave were
our object the next grandest view in
the world to that of the yellow metal
returning to Sumpter only to start
again, this time for the Bald mountain
district, up McCully fork, where Mana
ger McCallum has without doubt the
smOOthest running 2O-stamp mill in the
district, pounding away night and day
and producing full treasury for his
company, which proposes to start imme-
diately on long working tunnel, gain
ing depth and giving them ore for years
TO come. Next il the property OF the
Huronian Gold Mining company, owned
by Portland people, fine group of five
claims with considerable development
work and prominent ledge carrying
gold, that can be cut on the property at
great depth. The claims are favorably
located, the Bald mountain on one side
and the well-known Ibex mine on the
other side, which has large bodies of
ore blocked out and some Of it being ex-
tremcly rich and showing free gold in
large quantities. There is no
best, for they are all good. The Baisley,
the Virtue, Cable Cove, Bonanza,
Quartzburg, Cracker Creek, Granite,
Alamo, Bald Mountain and Cornucopia
districts, and the Grccnhorn district,
where the Sunrise company, which
owns property joining the lntcr-Moun-
tain, is being extensively worked by
Seymour Bell and associates, of the
Sumptcr Electric Light company. Talk
about what one has to say about this
eastern Oregon section in one article
YOU would have to devote all the col
imns Of the Record, and then some.
Every indication points to rapid devel-
,pment Of this great district. Hotel
'cgistcrs show the signature of the rep
Of the largest mining
men and mining companies in the land.
Perfect harmony exists between the .
nine owners, general good feeling be- /
ween those interested i'm the various .
districts, plenty Of work for all good min
ny men. Everybody seems to be doing
veil, and best of all, blackmailers and
knockers seem to have taken up their
bode elsewhere.
Eastern Oregon will probably produce
'etween four and five million dollars
his year, and among the largest pro-
ucers may he named the Bonanza, Co
nmbia, North Pole, Red Boy, Badger,
;olconda, Bald Mountain, Cougar, Mann
moth, Quebec and Baisley-Elkhorn.
'ew mills and various plants of ma.
hinery are coming in and an immense
mount Of development work is on the
he program. Here is u partial list
'hich shows that there must be some.
hing worth going after in this country.
"a far all intelligent extensive Develop
nent has met with success. Red Boy
nine, sinking shaft 1000 feet; Badger
nine, sinking shaft 600 feet; Bonanza
nine, sinking shaft 900 feet; driving
900 foot tunnel California mine, $50 foot
hnnell; Columbia mine, sinking 400;
'ougar, tunnel 100; Don Juan mine,
hnnel 100 ieet; Golden Eagle, sinking
10 feet; Golconda, sinking 400 feet Lit.
. Giant, tunnel 800 feet North Pole,
700 feet Bald Mountain, sinking 400
vt and 1000 foot tunnel; Huronian,
DOO foot tunnel; Quebec, tunnel 1900
'et Concord, l6OO foot tunnel; Strass-
urg, 40 foot tunnel; Diadem, 400 foot
innel Imperial mine, 1900 foot tunnel