Show OREGON sumpter american A high grade streak of ore came into the golden wizard shaft last week and when last reports were heard continued to the lowest workings streaks of ore richer than the main body have often come in but this is the largest encountered and assayed as high as the constant improvement in values proven with depth with the greater flow of water is very satisfactory to manager sumpter miner preparations are being made to begin operating the olive creek pine creek and slices gulch placer mines controlled by the killen warner stewart company as soon as the water moves ample reservoirs have been built and the ditches are being cleaned out preparatory to beginning work the earliest moment the weather will permit the company is getting supplies on the ground already to start the proposition going sumpter miner general manager bellman of the california informs the miner that that mine never looked better than it does today that large bodies of good ore are blocked out ready to be scoped as soon as the concentrator is put in commission there is two feet of shipping ore between tunnels no 2 and 3 and two feet four inches of 56 roch in the second above no 5 known as blacksmith tunnel which is now being sacked for shipment sumpter american W E saunders and J rosenthal owning a group of mining properties a mile and a half from the city on the divide between deer creek and powder river are preparing to have work commenced there when snow will permit the necessary preparation mr saunders contract at the snow creek will soon be finished after which it is his purpose to devote his time to the new group doing such development as will reveal the merits of the property mr rosenthal was over from whitney wednesday and stated that they had great faith in the group and expected to do considerable exploration work baker city herald word has been received here from the greenhorn district of an important strike of rich ore in the tempest mine details are lacking but it is said that a large body of high grade ore has been opened up in the tempest and there is every evidence of its being a continuous vein heavy work is going on all through the greenhorns greenhorne Green horns and the coming season is looked forward to with the highest expectations on all sides there is no doubt but what the immense development work done in the greenhorns greenhorne Green horns as well as in all the other mining camps about there during this winter will put many new producers on the list the coming season baker city herald malheur malteur city awen ty tour four miles due south of baker city is one of the hottest mining camps in the west the black eagle 20 stamp mill is thundering day and night on ore from the great porphyry dyke mining and milling being conducted at the lowest price per ton of any mine in oregon for the short month of february it is understood the black eagle cleanup clean up amounted to close to As the 20 stamps are crushing at the rate of tons per day it will be seen that the ore av average is about 5 per ton everything is put through the mill and if this average is kept up the black eagle will be the biggest gold mine in the world for the reason that the dyke is feet wide covers six claims and values go to a known depth of feet simple mathematics show that there are consequently more than tons of porphyry gangue in this great dyke |