Show im IM im I 1 lei im 1 1 lei la a iiii tool 2 wolf creek mining district special the correspondence S i mining review e J I 1 fol 1 I 01 lot 10 1 W ile ito lei 1 I lei M lei lei 1 1 lei 1101 WI lei tool wl of 40 rants grants pass oregon march 10 the passenger from a car window of a southern pacific train gets but a faint idea of the wonderful resources of wolf creek district vor corthern Bort bern thern josephine county as he is carried 0 A A 1 na A an old arrastre Afra on wolf creek past the unpretentious hamlet of that name yet wolf creek cuts an important figure in the mineral mineral and timber world for it is surrounded by hundreds of acres of mineral lands in a state of development and millions A T V miners taking noonday rest 1 leet feet of standing timber one company purchased Nr chased acres of timber land there last t year and has over men at work gett ilig it out n wolf creek are situated the scribner henderson mines recently purchased by the mountainview Mountain view copper company these properties are undoubtedly the richest free milling quartz propositions in the state they have produced as much as and to the pan they have been worked in a desultory way by the owners for a number of years past and have produced handsomely they consist of a great dyke or lode from 65 to feet in width and extending for a mile along the creek nothing better than a ground and been used in washing the gold from the soft crumbling rock of this property this dyke was found and has been worked by a couple of wood cutters who were satisfied with avith the higi high 11 wages afforded in mining the property in a primeval way the new owners are men of means and enterprise n A Y A bortl on of the placer field of W C M D and will give the mine a thorough development and when sufficiently opened up will put in a mill and plant and operate the he property 0 on n an extensive scale the most extensive mines both quartz and placer of the wolf cr creek eek district are those of the wolf creek mining development comp company any of portland of w which high M B bozarth arth is manager the w wafer a fa r ri rights of wolf creek and hole in the ground creek are owned b by y this co company on their placer claims are some feet of timber mostly fir and the whole of this ground carries gold values and will pay handsomely when subjected to pipe and giant The hydraulic mines of this company are equipped with an excellent plant they have two miles of ditch with adequate pip ing and two woo giants the banks are not as higham high as those of other placer mines in josephine but they are rich I 1 averaging 50 cents a yard the banks have a height of from six to twelve feet and lie in four fohir ancient channels of blue and gray gravel with a red clay capping the old miners who first worked the creek bed took out from 20 to a day each by the rocker and shovel process the gold Js is largely coarse the nuggets being large smooth and 10 NA A t main adit of tunnel quartz mine of wolf creek mining I 1 development co of the highest quality the rains have been heavy this year and these placers have enjoyed a splendid run there is a good depth of snow in the mountains and it is likely that the giants will be kept thunder all 1 dump diggings of W C M D co ing till late in may or june the wolf creek mining and development company also owns in the wolf creek district four contiguous quartz claims that are being systematically developed for work two streams of water flow across these claims of sufficient volume to operate a large stamp mill the three ledges being opened up show a width of from eight to twenty feet the assays essays show returns of 15 per ton in gold with a slight showing of silver A copper ledge also cuts into one of the claims and not only carries copper but also the royal metal it is the purpose and aim of the wolf creek company to put their properties in shape for work on an extensive scale they have been working quietly for some time past and have been rewarded with flattering results the entire district is one of great promise as aside from the development being done by this company the region has been barely scratched over there is probably no other district in the whole mineral west that can boast of so large a quantity of free gold on the surface as can be found on the hills of the wolf creek country it is an oregon klondike but dy reason of its accessibility is considered too easy to be a rich mining district the fact that one can be carried directly into it in a palace car seems to bear the conviction that it is not a mining region such being too usually associated with ice bergs mountain crags and flinty peaks of never melting snows just over the divide south of wolf creek is the greenback mine with J its thirty five stamps and large cyanide mill twenty new stamps having been recent recently lv added this mine has over worth of ore blocked out just north of wolf creek is mount reuben on which is located the gold bug five stamps ajax three stamps and kramer palmer four stamps the copper stain mine is preparing to put in a ten stamp mill |