The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1901-02-20
ADVERTISING IS
WHAT'S NEEDED.
Waiting World Anxious to
Learn About Our Mines.

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ceived so little advertising by its inhabi.
tants as has the cold fields Of eastern
Oregon; none with one.quarter Is its min.
eral wealth is 50 little known. As mat.
ter Of fact, the only systematic advertis.
ing the country has ever had Is that
which the o. r. & N. passenger depart.
ment has given 1t. Baker City has Is.
sued few thousands pamphlets and last
winter the Sumpter Townsite company
sent out some literature, but both Of these
efforts put together are mere drops In the
bucket to what Is needed. This printed
matter was not sufficient in number OF
pieces to reach one In ten thousand Of the
people who would be interested In learn.
ing of a mining section so prolific In op.
portunities.
The truth Of these assertions were forci.
bly, impressed on r. o. Bucknum during
his recent trip to Colorado, In which state
he spent several weeks. Where ever he
went. people who heard that he was
from mining region, were eager to learn
about the district, being interested In every
detail. He took with him all the literature
pertaining to eastern Oregon that he
could secure before leaving here and all Of
it went into the hands Of those who were
anxious to get hold Of such reading
matter.
Mr.. Bucknum says that the folders and
pamphlets issued by the o. r. 4 N. were
especially priced, those containing maps
of the district, on which the mines and
mills are located, exiting the greatest In.
terest. When one of these was shown, It
would be almost impossible to get It
back. The universal comment was that
the number Of producing mines with
mills Is greater than In the same large
area any where else In the world.
He thinks that In no other state in the
Union could as good results be obtained
by business.like, systematic advertising
Of our resources, as in Colorado. In the
first place, that Is state Of mining men,
who know a good thing In that line when
they see It and when they hear Of such,
they are anxious to investigate. II Is
therefore easier to secure money for In.
vestment in legitimate mining property
than In an agricultural or purely CONNER.
cial community. Last, but by no means
least, that is the class OF people eastern
Oregon needs; alfalfa miners from the
Palouse and Willamette valley are, In re.
ality, a detriment to the country.
Right in line with the foregoing, re.
mark made by J. q. McGuigan, the min.
ing man from Spokane who owns the
Alamo, while here last week, is peculiarly
pertinent. He says that the policy pur.
sued by the owners of the producing mines
hereabouts of persistently refusing to
make public the output of their mines, or
in fact. anything about their properties, Is
the greatest obstacle towards rapid de.
velopment which this country has to con.
tend with. Besides being an actual, pos.
tive detrment to the small mine owners,
and the district in general, he maintains
that 1t Injuries themselves. Nothing
would so quickly attract attention OF the
financial world to the gold fields OF east.
ern Oregon as the publication of authentic
statements of the monthly output of the
big producers. All mines were made to
sell and most of them are for sale. The
more money that could be induced to be
invested here, the more properties opened
up, the greater would be the selling value
Of every mine east Of the Cascades. In
all other mining sections, the dividends
paid tell this story to the world, but here