Show OREGON sumpter american mr me tatty has just returned from the miners ville district and reports a strike of free sold old ore on the mizpah claim owned by him and evans aasand and chesney he says in a 30 foot ledge T they have h a 14 inch vein of ore that 1 pans ans free k gold and assays essays in the hundreds sumpter miner minot austin came in again tuesday from his winterville Wint erville placer di diggings in t 8 brin bringing t cring 11 another laroe large t nu nugget ot ret from that proper property tv which was picked up last friday and weighed over in gold this is the second one found on this ground within two weeks that had over in it baker city democrat minot austin one of the owners of placer claims at winterville Wint erville one and a half miles below the bonanza mine arrived in the city last evening elling ev he brought I 1 with him a gold nugget n lioret mr weighing 0 za found last saturday its a handsome thing to look at in addition he brought brou 11 ht in several hundred dollars in fine gold sumpter american the tunnel in the morning star property has reached feet and has tapped a threefoot three foot ore body which it is said gives average assay values of 8 while some of the ores assayed 70 it is claimed this property is parallel with the bunker hill mine and a deal is now being negotiated by mr woods of baker city for its purchase lawton standard J al austin an old prospector and miner from spokane recently made a rich strike on ten cent creek about I 1 three miles from lawton he has located a free gold quartz ledge in which soma some of the ores runs as high as per ton there are several large placer claims on the same creek that have been worked successfully for a number of years mr J mckee with his sons recently secured the neat sum of as the result of three days piping with a two inch hose on his claim baker city democrat mr james gartland superintendent of the bonanza mining alining t company arrived in the city yesterday morning in from the bonanza mine and brought W with ith him two or more good sized gold t old bricks which he left at the first natio national nal bank the value of the bricks could not be ascertained since the bonanza does not make public its product the bricks represent several thousand dollars however the output of the five days of the present month sumpter miner mr jones of the bison gold mining Alining t company owning and operating 0 a fine property in the quartzburg Quartz burg district near prairie city received an ass assay ay certificate from mr S C robinson of cripple creek colorado showing in gold values from some samples taken from the property when the latter was visiting this section a short time ago mr robinson was a disinterested te party and made the assay to determine the values for his own satisfaction |