Show WHOLESALE PILFERING ON THE PART OF OF THE BONANZA MINES Baker B ker City Ci Ore Jan 31 Further developments development in the great gr at ore thefts demonstrate that that there are more Peo pee People people concerned than was at first sup supposed supposed supposed posed The suggestion that there is an organized gang at work is not borne home out by the investigation so s far fr made mad madI It is now well wen established that there has I been wholesale pilfering on the part of the miners working in some of the rich mines but it is further dem demonstrated demonstrated demonstrated that it I Is almost impossible to detect and apprehend the thieves With Wih very few exceptions the ore has been taken in small quantities qu and the specimens sold In many man Instances to innocent purchasers purchaser The uniform price of 10 per pound seems to have pre pro prevailed and the mine owners owner Insist that tt dealers in specimen ore o have not al always always always ways been innocent purchasers be because bl because cause they know the men from the ore was purchased and also know knoW that they were working In some of the bonanza mines It I is known that the traffic in specimen ore ar from eastern Oregon has become very ver extensive and profitable of late but at the present time the mine owners are confronted I with wih a very er difficult problem In being bOing I I able to the culprits and trace traceI I the ore alter after a ter it Is taken from the mine I The mine owners have decided to adopt more stringent rules and it i is possible that in Ia some mines rules rules sim similar liar ilar to those prevailing in the South African diamond fields felds may be adopted Portland Ore r Jan Albert Fel Pel the te well known Portland jeweler denies the te report that his firm was ever an innocent purchaser of any quartz quarts mines mine quart z stolen ate tolen from the Baker county |