Show 11 eastern oreon oregon 9 mines ssie SP mining ial 10 review view nce i Z sumpter ore june 10 major J W bonta of philadelphia who is promoting an electric road between baker city and the john day valley a distance of seventy five miles started a surveying crew this week over the route the object of the enterprise is for the development of certain mineral holdings which major bonta has and incidentally to furnish transportation to tile the oahn day valley a rich agricultural cour country try the mines referred to are the oregon wonder and will cleaver groups the former is said to be the largest gold bearing ledge in the district the outcrop is feet wide and may be seen a distance ot 0 five miles jutting above the country rock fully feet average assays essays of this rock are said to go from to 8 in gold while picked samples went as high as 27 the project is capitalized by philadelphia p peo eo yle jle whom major bonta represents and it is claimed it will go through beyond any doubt the read will be operated by electricity generated by water power the electric equipment has been contracted for and 90 pound steel rails have been purchased in england they will be shipped in sailing vessels from liverpool to portland prairie city in the john day valley will be the terminus of the new road A party of gentlemen from iowa in company with president killen visited the property of the standard consolidated gold mines company at quartzburg Quartz burg this week and it is understood invested heavily before leaving the city they had assays essays made while they were at the mine from the two distinct vein systems sy sterns which seem to rib the mountain one of these is gold cobalt and copper and the other gold alone the lormer former averaged about while the latter ran something over 20 the standard company has employed W A irvine a metallurgist who will sample all ore at the mine milne as a guide to development plans for an extensive treating plant are now under advisement it is stated that its daily capacity will be between one and two hundred tons and that work will probably be started on it this fall A fine line of samples was sent in this week from the highland property operated by neil J sorensen co they came from the glasgow drift and show heavy sulphide values with some galena this shoot when it was first encountered a distance of forty feet from the glasgow crosscut was eighteen inches wide but it has steadily strengthened until it now shows over four feet tt has been drifted on a distance of forty feet the vein proper ranges from ten to forty feet in width J 1 J hennessey geri general eral ni manager nager of the gold bug grizzly started a force of men at work on the property this week the present plan is to sink to the foot level cutting stations at the crosscutting to the parallel ledges and drifting in both directions the shaft which is now down feet is between the two veins which ara are seventy feet apart the property is well equipped with hoisting machinery and it is understood that development work is to be pushed rapidly ahead captain A M paul superintendent of the imperial in the cable cove district went to baker city this week to make application for a patent to the property the group contains fourteen clairs situated between the baby mckee mckee and the the california captain paul states that he is now ready to ship ore to the sumpter smelter and will do so just as soon as the road can be repaired so transportation charges will be reduced to an equitable rate L J lilley superintendent of the baby mckee who was in the city this week states that he is figuring on putting in a hoist with a capacity of feet at once and will probably install a treating plant later on the baby mckee is also ready to ship but is deterred at present on account of bad roads as in the instance of the imperial which is located located in the same district george W poague of fargo N D one of the leading stockholders in the liston listen lake property spent several days there this week he made a thorough examination of the mine sampling the ore and expressed himself as well pleased with the outlook manager wilson states that he will continue sinking until about the 1st ast of july when he will crosscut the ledge in several places it is his purpose he says to install hoisting machinery this summer work on the sumpter sampling plant which is being promoted by john arthur was begun this week the equipment for the laboratory and assay office are already here and the main part of the machinery for the stamp mill and sampler will arrive with in two weeks the mill will have a daily capacity of seven tons and the sampler thirty the building is to be completed as rapidly as possible and it is stated that the plant will be in operation by the of july dr ed W mueller general manager of the oregon smelting smelling Sm elting refining company and a member of the killen stewart warner firm and miss may frick of portland were married in that city sunday and will be here here next week to reside albert geiser of the geiser hendryx investment company returned this week from an extended trip east while away he bought a large Consign consignment meik of ma machinery chinery for the midway and goldban Gold pan the compressor plant which is now n aw on I 1 the ground tor for the blue bird and valley queen is expected here in a short time when plans will be determined for the treating plant which is to lo be erected on the blue bi bird I 1 rd the capacity of the mill is not stated but will probably be between thirty and forty tons a day to begin with anthony mohr who with six business associates of sumpter has secured control of over a thousand acres of coal land in the john day valley will leave next week tor for the east ot finance the proposition the coal is said to exist in large quantities and samples recently assayed contain from 30 to 50 per cent fixed carbon T G GWYNNE |