Show F ac accidental c find in oregon nw J the written mining J for review R IR NR ne waldo oregon july 20 much excite men meika has been caused in this vicinity by the recent re ent discovery of an exceedingly rich pocket of gold at the head of sucker creek a few miles from here A ran nan named briggs and his son were out looking for deer although it is not open season for such game and had succeeding in wounding a fine buck they followed it for some distance when their dog refused to go any farther the boy turned his attention toward the dog and began pelting it with stones to urge it on when he chanced to look at a pebble he held in his hand and which seemed extraordinarily heavy it was a gold nugget worth about 40 the lad pretty nearly went crazy but took care to carefully locate the spot and went for his father they took out of one small cr the next day the entire family returned and staked a claim apiece on a small quartz vein which was literally studded with gold then they spread the news broadcast and in a few days the hillside was alive with prospectors who located claims and took up mill sites on every side of the original locators cutting them off entirely from water they are norv completely fenced in by a fence a mile liae wide but they wont have to go hungry for some time for with nothing but a pick and shovel they have in three weeks taken out of the virgin metal more wealth than they ever dreamed of possessing but josephine county has a more substantial mineral basis than a few widely scattered gold pockets to rely on at latilana La tilina the latilana La tilina smelting smelling Sm elting corn com kan ican smelting smelling Sm elting and refining company has been working steadily on their reduction works under the management of albert I 1 goodell and of W S kelt keith h this is installing a thoroughly equipped smelter to treat the ores of the queen of bronze mine and of the waldo M S co s properties the ore is a heavy copper sulphide averaging 8 per cent copper and carrying about 5 in gold and silver per ton and sufficient quantity I 1 is mined and out to keep the smelter in operation for two years the fuel and matte will be hauled by teams to and from grants pass ore the matte will be shipped to the tacoma smelter for conversion the placer companies have reaped a harvest this year owing to the exceptionally large supply of water the season being a month longer than usual the preston peak district is attracting much outside attention immense bodies of good grade sulphide ore have been discovered and considerable development wor work is being done its greatest drawback is its distance from transportation JOHN GREAVES |