Show southern southe mijung news vod grants pass ore march 9 it has rained nearly everything but pitchforks and toad frogs in southern oregon during the past six weeks so the placer miners say for a while it appeared as though there would be a repetition of the ancient deluge so heavy was the precipitation of aqua rega an average of twenty inches of rail fell over southern oregon during the twenty nine days of february this was the greatest rainfall this section of the webfoot state has ever known the heavy rains have been of great service to the surface miners and operations jn in the placers have been carried on as they have never been carried on before every little dry gulch diggin has had water and ground sluicing propositions that have been idle for years have operated full time during the past month all of these placers are rich as they are ground that is ordinarily out of reach of any means of working and their operation this season will add materially to southern Or egons output of placer gold all of the big hydraulic mines have had water and more water than they could use and have run night and day and will continue to do so till late in the spring F H osgood the seattle mining and railroad man who recently acquired the old hammersley mine of jump off joe a property that has been abandoned for a number of years on account of litigation is meeting with good success in clearing the mine of the flood that has swamped the tunnels and drifts the water is now nearly out of it and the mill and plant are being cleaned up and put in condition for immediate operation manager W J morphy of the american gold fields company announces that he will double the battery now being placed at the new mill of the granite hill mines by july this will make a battery of twenty five stamps including the old battery of five the old gold bug mine of mount reuben has been thoroughly overhauled and repaired and is now operating on a larger scale than before the gold bug is the property of senator jones of nevada A five stamp mill and 30 ton cyanide plant are operated james camp and robert brown of san francisco owners of the althouse AI placer mines of althouse AI creek have begun the work of increasing and enlarging the equipment and plant of their property new ditches will be constructed and an hydraulic elevator put in the new ditch will deliver 2000 0 miners inches of water and allow beet feet gravity pressure to the giants col woobrow Woo W bodrow superintendent of the new york general electric company has beben in southern oregon for several weeks making an examination of the blue ledge and other big copper properties of this district he is representing a number of new york men who are after a large copper property and the colonel has been led to believe by what he has seen out here that he will be able to find something big enough and good enough for his new york friends thien brothers of seattle who recently bought the golden wedge mine of galice creek are meeting with excellent success in the development and operation of this property the mill is not able to care for the ore as fast as it is removed and the bins are being piled with high grade quartz superintendent C C higgins is steadily progressing in the development of the baby mine of jump off joe district for the capitol city gold mining company of sacramento S chase and his portland associates are highly pleased with the showing the oro fino mine of the jump off joe district the mine is being opened up under the supervision of mr chase the vulcan mine of the grave creek district has made excellent progress since installing its mill and concentrator the quartz of the yellow horn mine adjoining is treated by the same plant samuel bowden of spokane had assays essays made this past week of samples of ore taken from the shaft being sunk on the slate creek copper claims recently bonded by him the returns of assays essays gave average 11 1 1 15 per cent copper the waldo smelting smelling Sm elting refining company has begun the preliminary work of constructing ting a smelter at its waldo copper mines wm goodell a denver mining man is in charge of the work the company proposes to put in a ton smelter this summer the bill nye mine of the gold hill district is operating a new five stamp mill and plant mr C R ray manager of the condor water power company is putting in a line of poles from the power dam on rogue river to the braden mine by which electric power will be conveyed to operate the 10 stamp mill compressors and other machinery DENNIS H STOVALL |