Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-01-16 | Page 8 | Mining Camp Changed Now to a Ranch

MINING CAMP CHANGED CHANCED NOW NON 5 TO A RANCH I Tho career of tho town ton of Sumpter in Baker county county Or le less s than a doz dozen oz en en years 3 ago O the liveliest li minin mining camp campin in Ore Oregon on was as closed for all time b by bya a deal completed Saturday transferring tr tho the holdin holdings of tho the Sumpter Tons Townsite te company comprising in acres to a anew anew new corporation known knon as s the Sumpter Sump Sump- ter Land company Instead of at attempting attempting at at- tempting to boom the tho town ton the new I owners will transform it into a ranch havin having baying alread made nade arran arrangements for irrigation Tho Iho population of the town rown which was once OMe over pr 1000 has baR dwindled with mth th thA decline of minin mining in inthe inthe inthe the district to a barr barn 00 or so SI Soon where gold old dust was as traded for fighting whisky nhi in days gone by th there tho re will be fields of alfalfa and timothy and instead of the click of the pok poker r. r I chip and rattle of ot the roulette rouette wheel beel will be heard the bleating of sheep