Show OREGON sumpter miner T S kennerly superintendent in of the gold coin mines in the greenhorns greenhorne Green horns was transacting business in sumpter last week he reports that every one is so busy in that section they have no time to tell their neighbors the news although there would be plenty of a favorable nature were it known sumpter american J bowen has a small force of men drifting on ore opened on the keystone belle property adjoining the bonanza on the southeast mr bowen says that the ore he now has in the tunnel is a good milling grade and that the property has a better indication than at any time since work began there it is his understanding that the company wl will ill keep a good force employed during the year baker city herald the elkhorn consolidated soli dated gold mining company has anticipated its next two payments on the maxwell mine by several months the officers of the company who are up to date hustling pushing business men realize that they have a good thing and are taking advantage of their knowledge the maxwell which lies on the north slope extension of the mother lode system is one of the coming big producers of baker county and under the of W C bass development work is being pushed with as large a force of men as can find room to work sumpter american reports from the office of nell neil J sorensen co this week were to the effect that the ore body opened in the friday in the east drift is widening as progress is made it is also learned that there is improvement in values the ore is being sorted and placed on the dump pending installation of the mill superintendent griffith considers the opening of this ore body of great importance to the mine as it tends toward substantiation of the theory advanced some time ago that the same conditions exist at the friday as were found in the the checkmate grants pass journal among the latest developments of the mines in this section of the state is a body of ore giving returns of from to per ton ion this has just been uncovered in the granite hill mines and specimens of the rich product have been exhibited in the city this week they were peppered with free gold and pronounced by those who have had practical pra cical experience in the mining business to be of an exceedingly rich quality the strike was made in a drift that is being run at a depth of feet from the main shaft of the mine sumpter miner As every one here knows sumpter is built on a gold bearing gravel bar it is thought to be even richer on this than on the other side of the river where A W ellis and others have washed out many thousands of dollars of dust scarcely a well or a cellar has been excavated within the city kimtis in which gold nuggets were not found and to find gold dust in the crops of domestic fowls excites no surprise it is a hackh hackneyed eyed local phrase that there is not a lot in town that does not contain much more gold than enough to pay for it last week however the presence of gold in the ground all around us was manifested in a new and novel manner during the warm hours of the day while the snow was melting a little stream ran across the sidewalk in ih front of hotel sumpter along the ragged edge of ice that acted as raffles riffles rif fles fies one of the party of mining men standing t there noticed some shining particles and on examination they were found to be the object je ct of universal desire of the human race at one place there was a string of colors six inches in length |