The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1905-03-15
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view It is like a ship without a sail, "
said a Sumpter mining msn this
morning, after viewing the progress
of work on tSe permanent home for
the Sumpter mineral display, on
lower Mill street.
lyon can't very conveniently tote
an ore exhibit over the country.
hunting for people to look at IL. BY
the very nature OF the thing you
must bring people to It.
"Now. have no doubt that the
Sumpter ore exhibit will be a big
thing. 1 know 1t is going to be ar
ranged In al attractive shape, and l
have good reason to believe that the
mineral collection now being gathered
by the board OF managers will be q
most comprehensive one. When the
exhibit Is opened to the public, all
OF Sumpter--meu, women, children
and dogs flock to view II,
actuated, Of course, by mere curios-
ity, because every body In Sumpter--
men, women. children aud does-
know all about the mineral resources
OF this camp beforehand, and will
learn nothing further from an ore
exhibit. After the first day or 80,
local curiosity will be succeeded by
Indifference and apathy. and the ore
exhibit will be without visitors, un.
less its permanent home is constitut.
ed loafinR place. or is made head
quarter, for the anvil chorus which is
always working In this camp. Two
or three travelling men a day may
visit the exhibit to swap smutty
stories with the attendant, and a
visiting mining man now aud then
may DRIFT into the place. But in.
terested visitors, after the novelty Of
the thing wear, OFF, will be as scarce
az hens teeth-unless some concerted
effort is made to bring outsiders In.
81 take IL that the Sumpter ore
exhibit was gotten up for the sole
and simple purpose Of advertising the
Sumpter district among such Lewis
aud Clark fair visitors as may be
prevailed upon to visit this camp.
When the project was Hrst broached
the idea WAS advnced that during this
Portland exposition year a large
number OF easterners would. after tak.
ing IN the fair, distribute themselves
around the country on tours OF In
spsction. All OF which is undoubt.
edly true. But q large majority of
the people who will visit the Port.
land fair, will do 30 for pleasure
more than profit. They want to see
what sort of country II 10 where rolls
the Oregon. They will be duly i'm
pressed by the exposition city, by
the majestic Columbia, by the beau
tiful Willamette. by Stsr. grazing
Mount Hood aud the Three Sisters;
oy the fertile Willamette valley, and
then, following their pleasure seeking
noses, they will pass on to the Pacific
to the dozens of watering places
on the coast, To Puget Sound, the
most marvellous country on earth, In
point Of abundant natural resources.
They will want to 500 Mount Rainer.
the gigantic sawmils at Tacoma aud
Port Blakely, the naval yards at
Bremerton, the big trees of Skagit
county, the rhododendron forests of
kitsap. the marvels OF Hoods canal,
the bicycle tree OF Snohomish, the
smelteis of Everett aud Tacoma, the
salmon canneries of the lower sound,
the commercial giories OF Seattle.
that gateway to the Orient aud to
ALASKA. That's just exactly what 1
would do II we're sn easterner who
had never been to the Great North