Show the coming boom miner sumpter oregon in another column is published an editorial from the salt lake mining review on the coming boom that is peculiarly appropriate to this section there were those here eighteen t months ago who seemed to dread the dp approach of industrial and commercial activity fearing that somebody would call it a boorn boom even now one occasionally hears a regret expressed accompanied by a sigh over the fact that last winter this town experienced for a few months a kindergarten boom such expressions have a tendency to make a live man weary that little ripple of excitement did more good for the gold fields of eastern oregon 0 in general re and sumpter in par particular nicular than all the efforts to attract outside attention to the country during the previous twenty years more people visited sumpter in six months than had come here in as man many y years the permanent population quadrupled in less than a year the vote increased from in december 1808 1898 to in june odthe present Y year e a r hundreds of thousands of dollars have been brought into the district for investment worthless real estate has become valuable and a market created for promising mining properties all this has been accomplished by that incipient boom and the miner hopes that within another year a fully developed adult boom will sweep down on this region that will take the breath away from the old backs and force prices up to the blue sky line limit |