Show OREGON sumpter american J wm wilson and associates have taken a two years lease on the properties of the granite creek gold mining company the group comprises eight claims fairly well developed and the new operators have started a force of men to thoroughly exploit the vein baker city herald the heralds special whitney correspondent this morning announced that ed le clair of the don juan mine near robinsonville brought in the cleanup from the 10 stamp mill on that property for shipment to the bank in this city the cleanup was in the shape of two gold bricks one weighing and the other 1003 baker city herald the rainbow quartz mining claim was sold this morning for in cash A J trimble is the purchaser the claim was owned by blake landreth and his wife and J R landreth some time ago al 0 1 the Land reths sold this property to mr trimble at this price and the bond was placed in escrow after the purchaser made a thorough examination of the property he became satisfied that he be had acquired a valuable mine and today the bond was taken from the bank and the full amount paid in cash mr trimble whose lucky min mining operations operation sin in this section are too well known for repetition will at once begin the development of the property baker city herald the incorporation papers of the pine creek placer mining company were filed today the tors are david copping david L dillon dillen and H K stewart the new company is capitalized at with the stock divided into shares of 1 each the company is authorized to do a general mining business sumpter minor miner the old virtue is to the front again with a phenomenally large and rich pocket netting the neat sum of it was a case of finding gold with a little quartz mixed with it the gold was so plentiful that the stuff could not be amalgamated nor even crushed in a hand mortar and had to be run through a retort the retorts held about each and it required some little time to do the separating the find was made on the collateral ledge which has had several pockets containing from up the bulk of the former big pockets were found in the virtue lead some of them running as high as and through these the mine has produced several million dollars |