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The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1905-03-08
BIG CHUNKS OF NATIVE
COPPER FOR the FAlR

Ores are being gathered In con.
siderable quantity by many mining
companies for the exposition. The
Fidelity Copper company, operating
iu the Seven Devils district Of Idaho.
and Josephine county, Oregon. has
sevral hundred pounds Of high grade
bornite, Rlsnoes aud some remarkable
chunks Ut native oopper, whioh will
be put on exhibition. Other CON-
panies ARE awakening to the urgency
of making = flns sxhibit, and applioa.
tiOns for space grow more numerous.
The time Tor completing arrangements
~ limited, and many mining men,
are waksnins to the value Of tho OK.
position when Il II almost too late.
The Fidelity company took its ore
from the Seven Devils group, largely
tom the surface cuts aud pits near
the Kleinsohmidt grade road. All OF
the metal shows q state Of thorough
oxidation. One ot the native metal
nuggets weighs more than 30 pounds,
aud there are many weighing q few
pounds each. william Trevor, Vice
president Of the company, says that
the native metal M q rule IL found
on the footwsll Of the vein crossing
the Nugget claim. diOrite being on
that contact. Other veins have been
opened.
March 10 10 the date Axsd by the
management for resuming develop
msnt. At that time q considerable
force 10 promised for driving \ deep
crossou'. which already has copper
indications IN the faOe.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1905-03-08
nURO Will DO BIG
WORK THIS YEAR

W. II. Hurd, Of Portland. who
operates the PotOsi aud Chelan group
OF mines In the Greenhorns, passed
through Sumpter this morning. on
route to the hills from Chicago and
Boston.
Mr.. iiurd states that he has been
most successful In promoting aud
has surrounded himself with sufficient
capital to do extensive work this
year aud will commence operations
on large scale ut once.
Mr.. Hnrd says money IL plentiful
In the east and the tendency is to In.
vest In mining. Eastern Oregon
mines are much talked Of aud have u
good standing there. lie says thou
sands Of people will visit Oregon this
yssr aud much capital will come
ready for investments In our mines.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1905-03-08
THAT s. Y.
EXTENSION

The Baker City Democrat ap.
nounCes that q mar Of the Stump.
ter Valley railroad company's 20
mile extension from Upton to the
John Day country has been fled In
the United States land offlce at La
Graude. The Democrat says that
this means the commencement Of
grading as soon as snow disap-
pesrL Speaking no doubt by the
card. it announces that grading
gangs snd equipment will arrive In
few days.
The extension will be onward to
the summit Of Dixie mountain In
Grant county. The company "a
articles Of incorporate" provide for
q southern terminus ut Burns.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1905-03-08

Assistant General Manager j. T..
Reed, Of the Sumpter ore exhibit, 10
rushing the work of remodsllinR the
old racket store for permanent
home for the display. Contractor
j. W. MoVickers, with y crew of men,
10 installing platforms, shelves and
wall cabinets. The Case Furniture
company will repaper the interior
aud lay linoleum on the floor In a
few days. The various sub-district
members of the board of managers
report succ"s, In securing ore for
tho exhibit, but have been instructed
5y the assistant general manager to
hold back their respective shipments
until the permanent home 10 IN shape
for reception. The exhibit will be
open vt all hours ct the day. aud will
be In charge of competent msn.
The formal opening will probably be
celebrated.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1905-03-08
BACKDOOR

Arthur Buckbee says: "There ere
Tonopshs and Goldnelds In eastern
Oregon. Yet there ere no stampedes.
Wbyf
~ would like to wager that had
the old Virtue mine been In Nevada
or Colorado when was operating II
a couple Of years ago. It would have
caused the biggest mining excite.
ment ever known since 40. l
took out ore worth one dollar MI
ounce. From one chimney I ex-
traoted $780, 900 in less than a
month. The ore was lousy with
wire gold. Had that sort OF thing
happened In Nevada. Colurado, Mon
tans or California or even Utah tele-
graph wires would have hummsd with
the news and a STAN pede would have
followed that would have put the
Tonopah rush to shame.
"Now, why didn't the ,enssti onal
incident at the Virtue cause STAN.
pedeS For one thing, l guess It was
because Pullman cars run within
seven miles Of the mine. No perilons
journey wss needed to reach the
scene. No danger to health or per-
sonal safety presented itself. Dis.
tance and inaocesibility were not In
evidence to create enchsntment. 1t
was too much like back door strike.
81 am willing to wager that In a
year or two there will be plenty OF
Touopahs In Baker county minus
the stamped features. BY this !
mean that operst, rs hersabouts will
10 short time be reducing more
guld than the Nevada camps pro-
duoe. There is plenty OF rich ore
10 Tonopah aud Goldaeld. We all
acknowledge this fact. But casual
glance over the history Of eastern
Oregon will reveal instances OF
strikes of far more sensational nature
than have been reported from Nevada.
GAS general proposition stampedes
are bad things for n camp. They
create sudden prosperity, IL 10 true,
but the after-sifect 10 bad. Dspres-
sion In all business lines inevitably
follows. hope there will he no
stampedes to Baker county, but
want to sse--and am sure I will
Q steady development OF the min.
eral resource, Of this camp along le-
gitimste and scientific lines, knowing
that such policy will result sooner
or later IN the building up OF min.
ing industry here, bigger. broader,
and more profitable than can ever Oc-
cur In the stampede camps of Ne.
vada."
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1905-03-08
MINING MEN ARE
COSMOPOLI1ANS

There is small chance for pro.
vincialism among the mining dis.
tricts OF the west. One will en-.
counter a few sso,ions OF q strictly
mining character where the citizens
boast Of their "oldest inhs bitants, +"
hut where such places are found to-
day II Ia usually where-other indus
tries and commercial pursuits have
bee built around them.
"Gold il where you Hnd It," aud
the same may be said Of the typical
mining man. You ind him where
You Hnd the gold. This faot i'm
presses itself upon one who goes In
to u new. mining CANT, where old
highways of acquaiutanceship meet
again, after having diverRed for u
season. One of the first comers at
Creede may, peIchance, get into
Cripple Creek on an early stage, and
the first msn met is an old scquain.
I nce from the Comstock lode. One
goes to the Klondike In 1897 aud the
other to Thunder Mountain In 1901.
In 1904 they both meet again vt
GOldAeld.
The mining Industry OF the west
comprises one grand domain. There
10 little to bs said, after sll, about
state boundaries and county lines.
The mining mans local pride 10 OK.
pressed In terms Of ounces fine-in
the colors that bis pan reveals. II
10 usually the citizen OF state who
really have nothing to do with min
ing, except in the matter OF owning
stock tokens of the business. that
love to tell about their states re-.
sources ~ against those OF rival
state. There are no state jealousies
In the active mining mans makeup,
when once he starts on the road.
All mining states are good states to
live In, aud the mining industry IL
the realm to which he owns alleRiaoe
Sectionalisn ~ not measured by
geographical lines, but by common
interest. a few years ago, when the
"siiver" question was alive In poll
tics, the west WAS accused of section
alism-with some justice, perhaps.
The tendency now - for tho SEQ
tionsiism Of the mining industry to
widen its bounds aud take IN good
part OF the United State. This 10 be.
caus of the special interest that
the east Is taking 10 the resources OF
the west. The mining industry 10
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1905-03-08
ARTHUR
BUCkBfE

Arthur Buck bee, of Salt La he. the
genius who rehabi litated, reincorpor-
ifled and revamptd the famous old
Virtue mine, the process OF evolu-
tion being from the letharsy OF Q
flve-year period Of abandonment into
q dividend payer, arrived In Sumpter
thi, morning from Boise, where be
ha, located bis headquarters while
developing mining properties near
Silver City, owned BY himself and
by the Canadian company which be
represents. lt was IN 1901 that
Mr.. Buckbee closed down bis CON-
pany's Cum berlaud mine at Silver
City aud devoted bis energies to re-
opening the old Virtue. A magnia
cent success attended his efforts. It
is matter Uf history that In 1901
from pocket on the Chicago aud
Little Pittsburg claims OF the Virtue
group, Mr.. Buck bee extracted ore of
such fabulous richness IN wire gold
that one chunk, Weighing % pounds,
yielded sl4,0 In a crucible
furnace, built especially to treat
the wondrously rich quartz taken
from the Chicago blowout. Four
sacks of ore were stored to await
teatment. each sack weighing about
200 pounds, aud worth IN the az.
greRate $4,000. The tale of how
the Chicago pocket WAS discovered
by Fred Braze, verbal lease holder,
and of the trouble which followed be-
fore Mr.. Buckbee discovered the OK.
traordinary nature OF the strike, has
already been related 10 these columns.
From the output OF the Virtue during
Mr.. Buck bees management, adjoin.
ing claims, including the Con.Vir-
ginia, owned by hamburger 4 Keith,
mining millionaires OF Salt Lake, aud
800 acre, Of placer ground on Virtue
HAT were purchased. So successful
was Mr.. Buck bees operation OF the
property that his Canadian princi pals
gave him free hand aud carte blanoh
to proceed uPon whatever liues OF
development. be choose. Mr.. Buck
bee Immediately began the sinking
Of q l5OO.foot three compartment
shaft. moving q 800, 900 deep. sink
ing plant from the Cumberland mine
for that purpose. HE plan was to
get outside Ut the subterranean water
course which caused 80 much trouble
in the ola 86O.foot Virtue shaft
sink below the stopped out level OF
the fam Jus l20Ox80O.foot Virtue
payshoot, aud cros>cut to the eight
known veins In the Virtue group.
The undertaking WAS rather monu'
mental. both from geological aud
financial standpoint. Hardly bad
he begun the carrying out OF these
plans. W hen for some reason or other,
his Canadian principals contracted
a case of cold feet. On account OF
an empty treasury. Mr.. Buckbee was
IoTCcu W Suspouu ut "pos"e'ouSs ~"
the mine lay idle until reorganiza'
tion of the company was effected by
Baker City men. j. X. Romig, OF
the Sanger mine. was installed at
general manager. but very little 10
being doue. The Virtue 10 credited
by United States mint reports with
an aggregate production from 1862.
the date of discovery, to 1898, OF g.
$4,000. MIR. Buckbee's visit to
Sumpter at this time 10 on business In
connection with the smelter. He is
an enthusiastic believer 10 the future
of Baker county % great gold m'u'
ing camp.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23
McMAKIN WON AGAIN
SAME OLD STORY OF VICTORY FOR
 CLIMBERS.
otis stockdale Was Hit Freely by Dur rett's Men, Hut His Run
 Saved . Shut . nmf.

Otis Stockdale was up against the real thing yesterday. and the Climbers hit him with the same freedom ana tha1 naS se9thern Pitchers at Athletic Park.
 John McMakin pitched fed,,.hn his y.stsr- ersr- teenth game for Montgomery ,s,esory s,essoT winning his game by score Of e.h so l. the one run being scored in the nlth, the only inning that the Egyptlans vantase We1e sDie Even EU punG then base on balls caused the score. The Climbers punched hits on stockdale in the fourth. fifth and seventh tn, inn innings; sgsS;s,os a being punched in the fifth, making SIX runs altogether.
 The hitting of the entire team was heavy, and consistent, but John Me Maxim again batted at a terrific clip, with a couple of long two baggers. In the third he hit for two bags, but was thrown out trying to stretch 1t to third base.
 Both teams displayed more ginger than has been seen in long time ana some fine fielding was done, the heavy baserunning of the Climbers making the final score a foregone conclusion after the third inning; ..a. .,o
 It was in the fourth inning that the Climbers began scoring. Brouthers drove to center, Schwartz bunted, but Stockdale got 1t and threw Brouthers out at second. Molesworth was out on a hit to Alexander. Big Mullaney pounded out a two-bagger to center Schwartz scoring.
 In the fifth. with one out. Brown walked Stockdale hit to McMakin, who got it and threw Brown out at second and hits by Alexander and Beecher showed Stockdale across the plate, tieing the score.
 It was speedily united in the last half when a perfect shower or long hits fell on Stockdale. Thornton had the hard luck to pop up a foul that ''Scrapiron" pulled down. Thdn Busch hit & long single to center. Ed Hurl- burt threw to second when Heine started on the steal, but the ball got to Walters on the wrong side and Busch was safe. Then Walters tossed the ball away and before it could be returned the Kid had scored. Pat Millerick pounded out long two-bag- ger to left and scored when Sparten- burg John got his second two bagger to center McMaking scoring on Char ley Schwartz's drive to right.
 In the last of the seventh Busch hit safe and stole second, going to third on Millerick's infeld hit and out, and scoring on McMakins long fly to Boyd. Brouthcrs walked and stole second and Schwartz pounded out a long hit that Brown made great run for but couldn't get under, Brothers scoring. No more scoring was done and the game closed 6 to l.
 Tho was.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23
THE END COMES TODAY
LAST GAME OF THE BASEBALL z SEASON.
Ike Dmrrett's WiBning Team Will Re Given Housing Farewell By
 The Fans Of Mont GOmery.

Today the last game of the 1905 sea, son will he played and the crowd promises to be large. Arrangements had been made to have brass band in the stand and make the afternoon general Jolification.
 ; Owing to fact that the Memphis team and most of the Climbers Will leave on the 6:30 o'clock trains the music had to be cut out and the game Me Roberson, the Lowndes County boy. reaches the city this morning he will pitch today's, game. Dominick Mullaney has decided to leave tonight and will go straight to his home in Savannah. Brouthers will go to his home in Charleston instead of Balti- more as was stated yesterday morn- ing.
 Regarding the crowd today there is movement on foot to close many downtown business houses at o'clock while 1t is probable that all of the up- town railroads offices will close at 7 o'clock.
 The farewell to Ike Durrett's mag nificent ball team will be royal one and they most assuredly deserve every bit of it if ever a bali team did. They have met appreciation with apprecia- ton Seeing how the pubic at large pended every ounce of energy they pos sess in efforts to win. How we'll they have succeeded results have shown. A more gentlemanly set of ball players it has never been Montgomery's good fortune to have in its midst, and just so long as such a set of men represents the city just so long will baseball be an unqualified suc- cess in Montgomery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23
NATIONAL LEAGUE.

Chicago, Sept. 92.-In a game full of wrangling and objections to Emslie's umpiring Chicago today defeated New York by better stick work. Atten dance 5000. R.H.E. New York. 12O 900 010-4 1
 Batteries Reulbach and Kllng; Wiltse, Taylor and Bowerman and Bresnahan. Time 15O.
 Cincinnati. Sept 22-Stricklett was hit hard and timely and received poor support from the Brooklynites. At tendance 1,200. R. H E. Cincinnati O2l O6O 2O"-Il 16 l Brooklyn. .. 900 900 100- g 1
 Batteries-Overall and Schlei; Strick- lett and Bergen. Time 2:07.
 Pittsburg, Sept 22.-Pittsburg won the game from Duggleby in the first two innings with hits. one of them be- ing Wagner's home run, netting three runs. Attendance 2,500.
 Pittsburs.. .. ., 300 900 Oo.-6 is , . ... 010 400 00o-5 0
 Batteries-Leifield and PeitZ; Dug gleby, Sparks and Dooin. Time 1:30.
 St, Louis, Sept. e2-st. Louis lost to Boston today. The batting of Dele hanty and Wolverton were the fea- lures. Attendance HOO.
 St. Louis. .. .. 1O1 no oO1-5 s 2 Boston. . O31 O1O 302-10 IS O
 Batteries-M and Grady; Frazer and Moran. Time 1;5:.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23
The Truth Beautifully Told.

The late F w Rhinelander, president of the Metropolitan museum of art once narrated in a New York studio pretty story about MT Gladstone.
 "A miniature painter" he said did a little portrait of Mrs. Gladstone m her oIo are fl was A nIeasant. taking little DOT trait It pleased Mrs. Gladstone tremend- ouslv.
 But one day q young relative of the family. looking at the miniature m Mrs Glsdstone's absence. said to MT Di@"S'ohe with a ruddy chuckle: .,.,,. it rathers flAtters the old Iady?"
 MT Gladstone laid his hana on ,sl, .ne young mans shoulder and In hlS u'' mellow voice, he said: ,,..,..,,,,.
 My boy, 1t is the trpth told "
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23
ANDERSON CHAMPION.
He Wins Open Amateur Contest and
 Gets the Title.

Hamilton. Mass, Sept. 22.-Willie Anderson who played from tue Apa- Wamis Club of Rye. N 1., won the open golf championship of America at the Myopia Hunt Club today Tor the fourth time in five years. Anderson-S s score for the = holes was S14.
 Custody of the championship cup for another year. $20O and gold medal ar" the material trophies of Anderson victory.
 Alec Smith of the Nassau Country Club, who led Anderson almost to the tast green was second with 3l6 and won $50. Peter F. Barrett of Toronto and Peter Robertson of the oakmont Club, Pittsburg. were tied for | third place with 311 and divided third and fourth money, $125 and SlOo. stewart .anpbeu Of the Country Club. Brook iyn, was sixth, and received $69; Gill peri Nicholas of Denver and J. Hobens ot Eng lewOod, N l., were tied for sew enth eItEh place and divided seventh and eighth money. $50 and $40. their scores belhg 32l c. Cummings of Toronto Was ninth with 323. and won $50. while Artnur Smith Of Columbus. the Wes- tern champion. brought up in the rear od tne money takers with S2+, and re- Two amateurs. Walter J. Travis. a LIc,mer amateur champion of the Gar aen fly Club. and Arthur D. LOCK wood of Aston. finished just outsldA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23

the money with scores of 325 each. Win Smith, the Mexican champion. made a score of S2s: his medal play to- day being 16 and ss
 The contest started yesterday with seventy eight players, of whom tweh- ty-one dropped out after the f1rst day and four failed to receive cards today. Arderson's victory. which only came py Va-A~va'sll- %t0sdS play. was popu-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23

lar one Several hundred enthusisst' started after him from the first te' this morning. when he was five stroke behind Smith ond Gardner, and there were four other players ahead of hin in the scoring. That he justified thu confidence of the gallery was showr from the start. Smith finished the frs' round of the day one stroke ahead with eighteen holes to play.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23
'Batted for Whistler ninth inning.

summary-Left on bases, Montgom- cry, 9: Memphis, 4 Two base hits McAfakin. 2; Muilaney, 2; Millerick, I. Bases on balls, by Stookdale,. l.; Me Maxim, g.. Struck out, by Stockdale, f; McMakin, 5. Sacrifice hits, Millerick 1. Stolen bases, Busch, 1; Brouthers, |; Mullaney. 1. Time of game 1:20. Umpire. Ehret.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

New York, Sept 22.-Manager Grif- fifth, of the New York Americans, tried new pitcher. LeRoX, of the Eastern League today and the newcomer won
 RH.E. Chicago. ... 900 001 OO1--2 6 2
 Batteries-Altrock and McFariand; LeRoy and Kleinow and Fultz.
 Philadelphia. Sept. 22.-Philadelphia and Cleveland broke even today: The home teams errors played an impor- tsnt part in the first contest. Flick retired on account of an injured hand in the eighth inning of the first game. Lajoie taking his place. Coak; while Philadelphia hit Moore hard enough to win.
 First game. R.H.E. Cleveland. .. :. 210 103 001-S 10 1 Philadelphia. - 11O 900 2O0-4 10 $ Batteries-Rhoades and Clark; Dy- gert, Bender and Powers.
 Second game. R.H.E. Cleveland. .... 900 900 0l0-1 5 Philadelphia . oil 900 OO"-2 8 1 Batteries-Moore and Clark: Coak- ley and Schreck. .-.: .... Boston. Sept. 22.-Boston won the first game today on St. Louis poor fielding St. Louis won the second game by a batting rally in the ninth. First game. R.H. E. Boston,. .. 900 200 00H-2 1 Batteries-winter and Armbruster: Powell and Sugden.
 Second game. R.H.E. St. Louis. =. 100 900 Oo1-2 6 3 Boston. .. .. .. 01O 900 00O-1 6 1 Batteries-Howell and Spencer; liar ris and Criger.
 Washington. Sept. 22.-Detroit again defeated Washington today through Washington =. o23 900 OOo-i 5 0 Detroit q. .... Ol0 200 030-6 13 3 Batteries--Townsend and Hcydon; Eubanks. Wiggs and Warner
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23

Baseball Commission today decided to increase the players share of the first four game of the worlds cham pionship series between the National and American Leagues from forty to sixty per cent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23

Summary-Two base hits, Gear Stolen bases, Kellackey. Crozier Sac rfce hits, Crozicr, Double plays. Jor- dan to Stafford First on balls. off Mcfarland, ,. Hit by pitcher by Bur mum. 1. Struck out by Burnum. 2; by Mcfarland, 6. Passed ball Archer Accersini Wildpitches. Burnum, g; Mcfarland, 1. Time. l:20, Umpire, Pfcnninger.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23
Draw in Cheas Match,

Numrcmburg, Sept. 22.-The fourth game of the Tarrasche Marshall chess match was played today and ended in draw, the third successive one of the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23

SummarY-TWo base hits Russell. Wiseman, BriskeY. Swanu. Three base hits, Downing Bases on balls, Her mann, l: of Swann 8. Struck out. by Hermann. f. by Swann. !. Sacrifice hits. Norcum Kanzler. Eiscy, Keenan, Stolen bases Norcum, Graffius, , Time. 1:2o Umpire, Shicbeck,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23
TrnxeIIern, Errors.

Atlanta, Sept. 22.-Atlanta took to- days game on Little Rocks errors. Att tendance 500. Score:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23
Wi.eman Brokr un Com..

Nashville Tenn. Sept 22.-Wiseman' n s drive to right for two bags in the eighth inning won the game for the locals.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23

Santa Fe detectives, disguised as tramps. have found that it's trainmsn have been carrying passengers at greatly reduced rates on the comoany's California lines and pocketing the monsX,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23

Yesterdays crowd was one of the largest ever seen at a ball game in Montgomery. By agreement every To- cal furnishing goods house closed at ? o'clock and employees and clerks were at the game. Coming back from the utmost capacity and the front and rear platforms and running boards on each Side were lined while in the large com bination cars numbers of ladies were sitting on the steps and in front and rear doors,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-23

Starkell left last night for his home in Tacoma, Wash. The local fans will watch his future career with Interest and his friends in Montgomery wish him every success.