Show sumpter miner the third payment on the mayflower claim in cracker creek district was made in this city saturday to J B freyer who negotiated the sale for the owner frea knuth of sumpter to mcminnville oregon people the mayflower is located 2700 feet west of the golconda the purchase price is reported to be baker city herald work was begun this week on the gigantic hoist which is being erected on the excelsior mine near the red boy owned by john joh n and fred lack 1 of baker city the crew consists of ed nordyke foreman W W mccalley A G roberts and bert mathews of sumpter and jim barry and ben kinser of granite As a proof of the excellent board and accommodations at the hotel grand this entire crew makes their homes at the hotel coming in every evening and returning to work in the morning on mr thornburgh Thorn burgs rig THE business men of salt lake city have a splendid opportunity to greatly extend their business and trade if they will only take advantage vant aoe of it in our sister state nevada joining utah on the west a great revival is noticeable noti cable in the mining industry and a rival of the great comstock is knocking at our doors for rc recognition cognition we refer to the mar ly rich camp of tonopah To in nye county to a new mineral district which with almost mushroom growth has sprung from absolutely nothing two years ago into one of the richest mineral producing sections of this great west tonopah To today is one of the marvels of the mining age seven millions from the grass roots is its history during its brief existence from a camp of tents it is now a city chaos has given way to order with millions already made the fortunate ones are out after still more the business of the new camp is steadily assuming enormous proportions and is well worth trying for it will mean much for some commercial center such as salt lake already the ores of the camp are being consigned r to the salu salt 1 lake markets the business men of tonopah are sore on pacific coast cities and are looking 1 with favorable eye to salt lake and they state that if they are accorded fair treatment here that the bulk of their bus business nes 9 will come to zion already our mining minin g machinery machiner y dealers have sized up the situation and they are more than willing to meet the ton tonopah opah people half way with united action and a determination to be the commercial mecca for the bonanza camp of tonopah To salt lake can easily control the bulk of the business of this eldorado section the mining review extends the hand of friendship and welcome and invites the people of tonopah to give our business men a portion at least of their business assuring them of courteous cour and pleasing treatment |