Show MACHINERY FOR THE GOLDEN DRIFT correspondence grants pass ore august 25 grants pass and josephine county will have an elaborate exhibit of gold at the session of the mining congress nuggets dust and rare specimens of rich ore from the placer and quartz mines will make up the exhibit among other things will be nearly the entire output of the famous briggs strike of sucker creek and accompanying it will be david briggs himself the first installment of machinery for the big power dam of the golden drift mining company has arrived the machinery received consists largely of the battery of horse power turbines that will be placed to supply water and pressure to the giants in the dry diggings placers there will be five of these wheels to begin with and they will be connected by one shaft to a centrifugal pump capable of delivering gallons of water per minute under a foot head this pump is being manufactured for the purpose and will be in place before the close odthe of the summer the power dam built by the golden drift company across rogue river will accommodate sixteen 40 0 horse power turbines the takilma smelting smelling Sm elting company has its plant at takilma about ready for work the last of the machinery has arrived and is on the road to the mines the plant will be ready for blowing in sometime early in september the new mill of the granite hill mines of louse creek district is now at work and the test run gave excellent results the ore is running from 9 to 20 on the plates and the banners axe are taking up a big quantity of rich concentrates superintendent wickersham is highly pleased with the new mill as it has gave absolutely no trouble in any of its working parts A large force of men is employed in the and drifts and the main shaft is also being carried down as fast as three shifts can do the work the old ajax mine on mount reuben which has been under development for a number of years and which has over 1600 feet of tunnels and drifts shafts and up raises is to be taken hold of soon by canada capital and equipped for extensive business the ajax has employed a small asdall mill and by this paid for its own development its ledge is from eight to twenty feet wide and carries high values there is a large quantity of ore blocked out and the mine is now in shape to begin operation on an extensive scale the eureka mine of soldier creek has opened up a big body of 18 ore the mine is managed by A F nelson for the eureka mining company the property is equipped with a 10 stamp mill and fine plant for several months past the eureka has been undergoing an overhauling and is now in 1 I condition to begin a big business sinking and drifting has been done by a battery ot of leyer drills A rich strike was made a few days ago at the almeda mine of galice district at a depth of feet in the crosscut cross cut the hang ing wall of the pay shoot exposed a vein that measures feet in width and which carries from 9 to 14 a ton across its entire width this shoot or vein can be followed 2300 feet up the steep mountainside overlooking the rogue besides gold the ore also carries from 3 to 4 per cent copper near the hanging wall and at the point where the strike was first made a stream ot of water gushes from the fissure and is running fifteen miners inches this stream is strongly impregnated with copper the almeda is being developed by the almeda mining company its manager being john wickham president dent of the oregon mining association cia tion the old mountain lion mine of the applegate district twelve miles south of grants pass a once abandoned property but more recently under development by competent mining men is fast becoming one of the best producers in southern oregon A few months ago the mine was taken up hy by colonel J S crawford of philadelphia mark B smith of minneapolis and charles ff poindexter of topeka kansas these people have expended several thousand dollars in systematically developing and adequately equipping the mountain lion and have uncovered figore more than enough ore to repay the expense under the management of colonel crawford the mountain lions plant has been rebuilt completely new buildings have been erected and the mill equipped with engines boilers and five stamps the tracks are laid with new steel rails ands and equipped with steel ore cars and ore appliances prior to june the mou mountain lion mine was a dilapidated wreck now it is a busy property with a very bright future before it development proceeds from two adit tunnels and ore is removed by from these the ledge is from twelve to forty inches wide and gives div returns of from 10 to a ton the rand mining company has day and night shifts at work in the development or of their big property the yank of galice district over feet of tunneling has been done in this property the proposition is mammoth one the ledge being no less than u sixty feet wide with strong values in cuy COP per and gold i the exhibit exhibition io n at ai A nugget is on first national bank of this city the then dve 15 of get came from the klipple placer mine m an boland creek and came to light at the in nua nual I 1 c cleanup clean lean up DENNIS H STOVALL |