Show OREGON sumpter american recent assays essays from the miners dream claim in deer creek district is reported to give average values of 11 this claim is one of the properties of the exchequer gold mining company and is being 7 developed by a 40 foot shaft and crosscut tunnel the company will shortly consider the advisability of letting a contract for a foot tunnel which it is expected will tap the ore body baker city democrat wire gold has been b een found at the feet level in the columbia ia mine on cracker creek the property has as recently been equipped with a cyanide plant jant for the treatment of the tailings here afore from 15 to 40 per cent of the values 0 aavo ve been lost in milling and it is for the d purpose of saving these values that the cyanide plant has been installed it is the intention of manager baille bailie at an early date to also add 10 stamps to the columbia mine sumpter american the oregon group situated about one and a half miles from alamo in the greenhorn district and owned by frank ashley former superintendent of the little giant properties is reported to be one of the most promising prospects in the camp mr ashley is developing his property in a system systematic atio manner and the first of the week he had reached a depth depla of feet in the tunnel in the tunnel he encountered a two foot vein of free gold that is said to assay from 25 9 to 65 lawton standard anew A new group of claims that is coming to the front in the locality of geiser is the blackbird group which is at present working three eight hour shifts in a pleasant and instructive conversation with mr mccloud the foreman of the mine we learned that development work of the blackbird is being pushed as rapidly as possible already feet of tunnel has been driven a 46 44 foot crosscut cross cut has been made and a shaft has been sunk to a depth of 65 feet the property is controlled by eastern capital and it is expected that a ten stamp mill will be built during the present season |