Show OREGON sumpter miner the baby mckee is to have a hoist right away the order lids has already been placed and the machinery is expected to arrive within the next thirty days the consignment consists of a hoisting plant with a depth capacity of feet and a seventy five horse power boiler superintendent perin L G lilley who was in the city yesterday gave out this information the plant will be installed as soon as the machinery arrives the baby mckee is making an excellent showing in the way of development sumpter american surveying and other preliminary work has commenced on the water power and electric transmission plant to be built by R E B the firm of guessen dark clark of this city are the engineers employed by mr to get up the estimates and outline the work to be commenced immediately during mr Stra horns stay in this city the surveys were pressed vigorously and he accompanied by mr guessen Ju essen departed for spokane t the he latter part of last week where it is the purpose to get the estimates all into shape sumpter miner E J wallace formerly of butte mont expert ore locator arrived in the city last week and will probably make this his headquarters for some time mr wallace uses a magnetic device fashioned somewhat after the manner of the old dividing rod used by the water witch and which it is claimed will locate bodies of almost any kind of ore regardless of depth the theory of locating ore bodies by means of electricity has been exploited by mining and scientific journals all over the country and is now generally accepted the device used by mr wallace was originated by john thomas of new hampshire and came into the formers possession sev several i eral years ago he has perfected it until it is now claimed that the locating of mineral deposits by this means is reduced to an exact science in addition to the magnetic locator which will give the position of ore without revealing its depth underground mr wallace is also sole owner of kesters hesters electric te which will show the depth of any deposit located by the former the two instruments are used in conjunction mr wallace has been employed by senator dark clark and other prominent mining men in locating lost ore bodies |