160 Acre Sumpter NE Oregon Gold Mining Claim / Land Richest Gold Producing Area of Oregon Start Price USD 6,500.00 Current Price USD 6,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, November 23, 2008 End Time Tuesday, December 23, 2008 Location Sumpter, Oregon See more about '160 Acre Sumpter NE Oregon Gold Mining Claim / Land' Description 160 Acre NE Oregon Unpatented Gold Mining Claim This claim is located just outside of the small town of Sumpter, Oregon which is the richest historical gold mining community in the state of Oregon. This 50 mile wide by 100 mile long area has produced more gold than the rest of the whole state combined together. The claim name is Bunker Hill Placer 3. The ORMC number is 164359. This claim is located in Baker County on the rich Silver Creek in Township 8 S, Range 36 E, Section 36. This claim comprises the NW, SW 1/4's of the NE 1/4 and the NE, SE 1/4's of the NW 1/4 of section 36. As you can see in the photo’s I have provided this is a perfect size creek to run a 2 inch up to a 6 inch dredge. Some of the pictures you see the water is quite high as this is pictures from early spring with run off from winter. The picture with the dredge in it is from when he was over there last year doing some prospecting and he did end up getting over a couple ounces of gold from the group of claims he owns on this creek. He owns the claim just below and just above this claim being offered for sale. He will be keeping one of those for his own personal use. This is a claim that you will definitely recover good amounts of gold depending on how much work you put into it, and there is also silver and quite possibly platinum, but he did not run into any platinum while he was over there for his week to ten day stay. As you can see in the photo there is a nice spot for RV camping. The dirt road leading up to this claim is a good dirt road until the last ½ mile or so before you get to the claim. You can to this claim with a high clearance 2 wheel drive truck and you can get a truck and camper into it and also smaller motor homes. He took his 30 ft. RV up there and had no problem, but he stayed on the claim he owns just before this claim on auction. Be aware the road does have some hills just to let you know, nothing serious though. From where you can park your RV the creek is within a 200 to 300 hundred feet. This is how you get to the claim from Sumpter: Go to the northwest end of town past the gas station and you will see a road call Cracker Creek Road, turn right and go roughly 5 miles on this good dirt road and then you will see a turn off to your left and you will see a kind of an old gravel pit there, turn left, then go 2 miles on this good dirt road and you will be on the claim. There is a whole bunch of patented land just below and above this claim about a mile around and this tells you just what kind of claim your on as they would not have patented that land if it wasn’t rich enough. Here are a few of the lode mines located within a mile or two of the claim in Baker District; Carpenter Hill, Dale, Stubb, Tom Paine, Young American and in Cracker Creek District is; Analulu, Argonaut, Bald Mountain, Belle of Baker, Buckeye, Bunker Hill, Climax, Columbia, Cracker Oregon, Eureka and Excelsior, Golconda, Ibex, Mammoth, Mountain Belle, Mountain View, North Pole and Tabor Fraction. You will also notice in a couple pictures I added of the small town of Sumpter and old drag line bucket dredge that was operating at one time in the town of Sumpter on the Powder River. While you are in Sumpter you will find hand crafted gold nugget jewelry being sold by the local miners. You will also notice pictures of deer eating out of cardboard boxes in a local store. This is not one of those claims like you have seen listed of a mud puddle that will dry up before dredging season even starts being peddled as a quality, historical claim. What happens in those cases, these out of state people file on claims from out of state then drive up for a week to snap a few pictures to run home and put on auction and then when they get to the area they see it is just a mud hole, but they still try to talk it up and sell it to you. Not the case with this claim or any claim I own. I do own real quality paying claims only. Like the old saying; location, location and pictures are worth a thousand words. So if your looking for a real quality claim where you will get gold may I suggest you look into this one. When purchasing an unpatented mining claim you are purchasing the mineral rights, not the actual land. Along with the mineral rights comes the right to use as much of the surface as needed for your mining operation and you also have the right to stay on your claim while you are mining or just out there prospecting. Don’t let anyone tell you that you own the land on any unpatented mining claim because you don’t. They are not accepting any applications for patents at the time, but this may change at anytime and if so, then you would be able to submit an application for a patent and if it was approved then you would own the land and only then you would own the land and be able to do what you would do on any private property that this state allows. The asking price is $6,500. You must be an EBay member to buy it now. If you wish to do the buy this claim or one of the others mentions we'll communicate through e-mail or phone, and set up pay arrangement and you will place a bid on EBay so that EBay gets their fees. Payment must be received before I end the auction selling the claim to anyone. We do not let our auctions run to the end with just a bid or two without payment being received. We do cancel all bids placed without our approval. The only reason we do this is because of fraudulent, phony bids from our competitors. I do not use the buy it now button as people will click on the button therefore ending the auction and then you never hear from them again costing me time and money. The buy it now offer is good throughout this auction and I have the right to end this auction at anytime as I have this claim listed elsewhere. If you wish to purchase this claim payment will be due within 5 days by money order or cashier check. Once payment is received you would then place a bid and the auction will be ended selling the claim to you. Also once payment is received and clears a deed will be signed and notarized transferring ownership. Then we will send the deed off to the Baker County recording office to be recorded and they will send it back to the name and address listed on the deed of the new owner. We also send a copy of the notarized deed to BLM with the owner transfer fee. We do not charge a fee for any of this paper work. If you have any questions, e-mail me. They are out prospecting a lot so it may take a day to get your answers. No matter if you have 0 feedback or a 100 feedback I will need an e-mail with a contact phone number and name. We will call you on our dime to make sure you are a legitimate bidder and not another claim seller with a bogus user ID who has won peoples auctions just to leave negative feed back to other people. If a bid is placed without our appproval it will be cancelled immediately. No offense, but that’s how it has to be now days. The deed to this unpatented mining claim is guaranteed upon payment. There are no liens or encumbrances on it. There is no tax on an Oregon unpatented mining claim. The paper work is all up to date until September 1, 2009 and then the new owner will need to file and record their annual labor with BLM and the Baker County recording office on or before September 1st of each year. If for some reason you cannot perform your annual labor you can pay the $125 maintenance fee to BLM. All this will be explained to the new owner. As long as you own 10 claims or fewer all you have to do is work this claim 8 hours per year and give BLM $10 to process your small miner waiver form and your annual labor form and record your notarized annual labor form with Baker County and send a copy to BLM along with your $10 fee. I will also send the new owner all the paper work they will need to file for the up-coming year along with maps and other useful information and the addresses of the recording office and BLM. We do have two other claims on Silver Creek and one other claim on Granite Creek that will be coming up for sale soon, so if your interested you can e-mail me with your name and phone number. Place a Bid!