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Sumpter

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Sumpter

City in east-central Oregon, 29 km/18 mi west of Baker, surrounded by the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest; population (1990) 100.

Settled by North Carolinian farmers in 1862, it became a gold mining boom town in the 1890s with a population that reached 3,000. When the ore ran out in 1916, it fell into steep decline.



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He at once called to Sancho, who, however, had no mind to come, as he was just then engaged in unloading a sumpter mule, well laden with provender, which these worthy gentlemen had brought with them.
"'Tis Sir Norman of Torn," spoke up Red Shandy, "with his great host of noble knights and men-at-arms and squires and lackeys and sumpter beasts.
After them came twenty-seven sumpter horses carrying tent-poles, cloth, spare arms, spurs, wedges, cooking kettles, horse-shoes, bags of nails and the hundred other things which experience had shown to be needful in a harried and hostile country.
 
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