Show OREGON sumpter american with everything in ii readiness for the first flow of waters placer place operations were resumed the past week at a the rich black butte placer mines word won received predicts a long run as there is yet ye considerable snow in the hills and it Is 1 but beginning to move with the present now flo heavy and steady from indications this years run will be at least three or four fou weeks longer than last year when the cleanup was sufficient for the payment of a 3 per cent dividend baker city democrat report of a ric strike in the cornucopia district has been bee received in baker it is stated that in the th union mine a shoot has been opened up as a a result of which from 60 to 90 ounces of c gold are being taken from the plates of th 20 stamp mill every night the strike it i stated was made on the mill level an is showing greater values with every day run there are about 50 men employed a the mine at present but the report has i that a crew of more are to be put ut to wor WO at once baker city democrat reports baker are to the effect that some of th richest strikes ever recorded in the UPP camps have been made on several propend pro perUe in the bonanza district the biggest tb thi is that reported from the mine ta kaiui au information is authentic although the of the ore is rather high but a mining m who knows what mines are vouches for that t truth of the statement I he IQ says r rot which is taking ore from a vein to the ton in gold the vein is fro J 2 to 4 feet wide and has good depth ither t her rich find is that in the I 1 lost gulch nine ine the property of al stem stein and P asche this ore is running from 8 to 15 15 ton and there is plenty of it all around he e bonanza district the mines are are picking ip P and some of the richest finds ever in made ade re being recorded all the mines are doing extensive I 1 development work and the pros sects are that there will be a rush in there fais is summer grants pass mining journal W J wi er manager of the deep gravel mining kompany at waldo spent several days in wil own this week he says they are piping nth ith one giant right along and also running foot tunnel prospect he says they rill ill not have as ais large a cleanup clean up this season s last but will do very nicely considering tie e ground they had to remove mr wimer rought in a shipment of gold dust at this me the takilma smelter company are I 1 iring all the good men they can get and are a ying per day and board medford mail C M allen alien an and d T J godwyn are working on a prospect a few liles iles west of medford which they believe ill develop into a big galena deposit in he ie specimens brought into medford last eek the galena was very plainly discernible ii L fact cherock the rock was pretty much all galena his was taken out only a few feet from the surface from a vein about six inches wide which aich gives bevry appearance at this time bi widening out as it if goes down the ore also so shows a considerable percentage of gold bifid id silver also a trace of platinum |