Show THE PHOEXIX MINE Hnge Nuggets Being Picked Up in the Sloan and HnsUell Diggings Superintendent Hardy of the Phoenix Phoe-nix who returned a few days since from the mine was met yesterday by a Democrat reporter and in drifting to mining news the gentleman said While I was at the mine I met Mr Sam Carpenter who owns a promising promis-ing property in the district and he stated that he had just returned from a trip to the Sloan Haskell diggings on Elk creek and he gave a most flattering flat-tering report of these marvelously rich placers The gentleman said that nuggets nug-gets as large as a mans fist were being be-ing daily picked up and that the fine collection of nuggets which were sent to Baker last fall and placed on exhibition ex-hibition at the First National bank would not be in i when compared to the next sack sent in He said that he never saw anything like i before and doubts i its equal was seen I during the palmy days of 49 in the golden state I Well how about the Phoenix Mr Hardy enquired the scribe I I is looking fine was the response I and continuing the gentleman said I In the face of the upper tunnel which Is 400 feet long giving a depth of 15S feet there is to be seen a four foot body of ore The lower is in the same distance and gives a depth of 259 feet This work exposes a five foot ledge and the ore Is very rich averaging 128 per ton in gold We followed the ore body the last 128 feet and are now within sixty feet of the ledge exposed in the upper tunnel The five stamp milling plant on the site will be put up next week and I expect to commence crushing ore inside in-side of two weeks As soon as everything is running smoothly I will take a trip to Montana the Griffin mill I to inspect tle improved Grfn mi I with a view of purchasing a plant haying hay-ing a capacity of forty tons daily There is enough ore in sight at the Phoenix to run a plant of this capacity for eighteen months and before the years end I propose to place this property alongside of our heaviest producers pro-ducers Baker City Democrat |