Show OREGON J Among neighboring Stales none have emploYed greater effort or more Intelligent Intel-ligent means with which to engage the attention of capital than has Oregon The result Is expressed In the prosper ity l of a whole sisterhood of camps and anc an Increase In the commonwealths output of the metals that has been almost al-most astonishIng Baker City has attained at-tained greater prominence during the year as a mining center than In all Its previous history and while perhaps Portland has been the arena In which many of the big deals that were projected pro-jected during the year were closed their Inception Is traced Into time diggings dig-gings that surround Baker Like the average story of the empires of the West attention was originally drawn to Oregon by Its placers They were productive of many millions of course but not until tho prospector began to unlock her ledges did the mining industry Indus-try begin to attain the prominence Into which It Is now ripening During the year lust departed her camna have drawn upon the Inlelllgence the experience I ex-perience and the wealth of every State I In which the Industry Is recognized Its camps have accordingly thrived as I never before They have even lured It from Utah whose contingent there Is by no means an Insignificant one I has the Joint wealth of David Keith 1 and Jacob Bamberger In the Bcllevue mine and mill which the former has as an individual undertaking the Con r solidalcd Vlrglnlus an extension of the great Virtue in Baker county Col IsaacTrumbo has also found his way Into tho goldbearing regions of the country while Frank Harris W H Irvine and their associates have gone Into the region about Canyon City whore they have developed the Great Northern mine which was the past season sea-son equipped with 0 mill The Victor Jr another gold producer in the southeastern south-eastern part of the State has drawn I upon Ulah for Clarence K McCornlck and Frank Sutherland while Arthur I Murpny and his associates have found r fopthold near the famous Rob Roy The Oregon King during the season passed into the control of P J Quealy and J C Edwards while not a few others oth-ers have interested themselves in one or another of the camps and are engaged en-gaged N upon extensive development I work I Sumpter that has pressed forward at splendid pace during the year has been characterized us a child of Utah Tho men who built the lown or who made possible the building of It were Uiahns The heaviest Interested parties par-ties In the development of the district dis-trict are Utahns The Sumpter Valley Val-ley railroad connecting the rich mines of the Sumpter district with the Oregon Railway Navigation company at Baker City Is owned and operated by Uiahns The largest sawmill In eastern east-ern Oregon tIme Oregon Lumber com panys mill at Baker City Is owned and operated by Uiahns Vast tracts of valuable timber lands In eastern Oregon Ore-gon are owned by men from Utah Five of the heaviest Individual mining operators In the district are from Utah The thirty miles of ferllle Sumptcr vale lying 1 between this camp and the praIrIes Is almost exclusively owned by Mormons from Utah Within tho last two months CSSO acres of additional Pine limber tracts have been filed upon ly Utahns Every pound of provisions provi-sions household goods lumber and machinery ma-chinery consigned to Sumptcr passes through the hands ci men from Utah Every Ounce of bullion produced by the mines of that camp Is handled In turn by Utahne The entire district la nothing If I not very much Utah Ton years ago Sumpter did not haven have-n iJoaltlon on the map Today It has n population of 2500 I has nineteen atamp mills in operation and Is producing pro-ducing 52000000 annually In gold Some big fortunes have been derived from I Its diggings Two years ago English Pros bought the Golconda for nominal nomi-nal figure Development was followed by an Inimcnse plant at C cost of 150 000 Then it provided Itself with l len stamp mill and al proBenl Us dividends arc from 20000 to 26000 per month And there are others While tho movement move-ment In other localities has been with less rumble n largo number have sprouted n boom and are promised much encouragement from outside sources the present season To tho prospector there opena a most promising promis-ing field In many obscure portions of Oregon and thai new points will mako I their appearance on Its mlnoralboar Ing horizon the present year la well aa I sured I |