Show OREGON canyon city news F finlayson Pin layson and W A finlayson went out to baker city last week with the cleanup from their rich placer mine near marysville marksville Marys ville although the amount of the cleanup was not ascertained it is known to be large the boys have an excellent piece of gronna sumpter american H A mitchell managing the red chief while in the city this week stated that he had begun work there in earnest and would press matters dilli gently for the remainder of the season the new york owners of the red chief recently visited tho property when extensive development was waa determined upon this has been begun by mr mitchell baker city herald twenty pounds pound of concentrates from the white swan mine mine were shipped this morning to the puget sound reduction works at everett through the baker city sampling works the concentrates cen will grade close to per ton five of the ten stamps at the white swan are thundering daily on ore from the foot level the ore will amalgamate 27 per ton baker city herald soon the atmosphere about the psyche mine a mile and a half above the new town of Greenhorn will vibrate with the bhe whirr of mill machinery and the merry music of dropping stamps judge J fawcett of omaha owning a controlling interest in the property having closed a deal with W L vinson yesterday on the 20 stamp mill on the little giant property the mill will be moved at once to the new site whitney news A rich ledge of ore was run into in the shaft of the bonanza mine a few days since in sinking on the shaft an eight foot ledge was encountered at a depth of feet which runs to the ton this is believed to be a continuation of the main ledge of the great mine and substantiates the belief held by the owners that the ore grows richer in depth while it puts to flight the notion held by some that when the ledges were followed to the depth of or feet the values would run out the company will sink to a depth of 1000 or more it is said that the mill could start up at once if the tramway which was burned down recently was repaired sumpter miner some of the handsomest and richest specimens of high grade ore ever seen in the camp is on exhibition in mi E bains mineral cabinet there are three pieces of calan cala eite sylvanite aud and fluorine ores running za in values to ounces of gold to ton there is no gold visible but the application of a slow heat would reveal large glob ules The specimen of calan eite is a beautiful of tellurium and gold the application of acid and heat to it would dissolve the tellurium and leave crystallized gold chemically pure but with no affinity for quicksilver quick silver while the golconda and north pole produce specimens running higher in value nothing of the same character to compare with them has ever been seen here before |