Show OREGON sumpter american further reports from the princess property in the susan ville district contain the information that a shaft has been sunk sixty feet proving a vein four feet wide where the shaft is being sunk the shoot fills the entire vein gold being visible to the naked eye in specimens sumpter american in the last issue of this paper wherein appeared the statement regarding the crosscutting in the st louis property was a mistake as to names the crosscutting work is being done in the st joe property of which anthony mohr is manager the two names being confused inadvertently the work on the st joe is progressing as reported last week the big vein not yet having been crossed baker city herald the machinery for the cracker oregon hoist compressor and water wheel has all arrived in sumpter and is being hauled to the mine as rapidly as possible the lumber for the hoist is also arriving on the ground rapidly the shaft is down about seventy feet and is progressing rapidly the early part of this year will see the mill in operation and one more big producer will be added to the list in the bourne district baker city herald A big and rich strike is reported from the famous old white swan mine in clearing out the face of the north drifts on the second and third levels a new ore chute was picked up and assays essays show values ranging from 50 up to per ton in free gold the fact that the chute is outlined on both levels precludes the idea that it is merely one of those pockets which have made the virtue white swan district famous and demonstrates that it is a well defined chimney extending at least feet between the second and third levels and there is every reason to believe that it will continue to the surface above no 2 and go down below no 3 sumpter miner C R townsend will leave in a few days for the greenhorns greenhorne Green horns where he goes to take charge of the mill recently erected on the virginia group of mines this group consists of the virginia nabob and north virginia locations and is situated in the same neighborhood as the don juan and eldorado groups I 1 the mill which has just been completed is one of bf the parker rotary stamp pattern when the stamp drops on the die in the mortar a cog arrangement turns it around about three fourths of its diameter thus grinding the ore as well as crushing it by the blow imparted from the drop of the stamp this is the first mill of the kind erected in the sumpter district and its workings will no doubt be watched with keen interest by those interested in quartz milling canyon city news george K knight president of the dixie meadow gold mining company states to the prairie city miner that the lower tunnel on that property is now in feet and is progressing at the rate of six feet per day only feet remain to be driven before the vein is opened according to surveys one threefoot three foot vein has been cut by the tunnel from which likely ore was taken drifts from the upper workings opened ore with galena and zinc accompanying the gold values this is a wide vein crosscuts cross cuts of twenty feet not connecting the two walls drifts will be continued there to further explore this ore body sumpter american final payment has been made on the red white blue mining property of the malheur malteur district the total consideration for the two claims acquired in this purchase being R al wilson manager of the property for the purchasers has haas been in charge for some time and states that it is the purpose to install a ten stamp mill in the spring the red white blue is opened by a foot shaft from which levels have been run a distance on the vein making a total development of something like 1500 feet including a tunnel and shallow shaft sunk to prove the strike boston people are back of the company making the purchase the red white blue has produced some bullion by means of a five stamp mill and the work demonstrates a good ore body of free gold |