Show OREGON granite gem the city of la grande is 1 3 considerably stirred up over the appearance on the streets of a man carrying a sack of 0 gold ore which he asserts he found on mount emily less than ten miles from the city a peak which overlooks the entire grand ronde valley the ore exhibited gave every evidence of being first class and of paying grade during the past twenty days he has been prospecting on the mountain granite gem to satisfy a judgment for the sum of the sheriff of baker county sold the golconda mine saturday for the sum of for the real property and for the personal property it was bid in for the creditors by james chinnock of baker city it is one of the oldest properties in the country and will likely be reopened and re operated the sale was for the matter of clearing up the title and getting it in shape for operation sumpter american joe mikle one of the best known and most popular operators of the camp returned last saturday from an extended trip to nevada and other mining camps to resume work on his promising nine strike group in cracker creek section mr mikle has always been recognized as conservative and considering well before he speaks and his statement to an american representative is worthy of deep consideration 1 I am back again to do some more work on my claims in which I 1 have unbounded confidence As to other mining camps camp s compared with sumpter district I 1 still believe this the equal of any 11 sumpter american considerable interest was manifested the early part of last week when cato johns returned froni from his hammett group in the greenhorns greenhorne Green horns and displayed some magnificent looking rock at his big store the new shoot has been drifter on a little over seventy feet is five to seven feet in width with values ranging from 9 to 80 per ton there being one streak of shipping ore averaging 40 almost two feet wide at present there are over tons of ore on the dump and it is safe to state the fine showing at the property fully justifies extensive exploitation and a concentrating cent rating plant both of which may follow later this season glendale news salem the county commissioners ners court at their last meeting heard the petition of mining engineer gadsden representing eastern capitalists for the appropriation of 2000 for the building of five bridges across the santiam sangiam river to make the gold creek copper mines accessible in return for this investment mr gadsden guarantees the erection of a smelter with a capacity of tons per lay day it is expected that the opening up of these mines and the building of a smelter will result in the location of a refinery in this city the gold creek mines are located on the head waters of the santiam sangiam San tiam in the extreme eastern part of marion county A number of leading citizens appeared before the court and argued in favor of the 2000 appropriation grants pass courier another fabulously rich gold strike was reported here tuesday morning from fillers Fid lers gulch eight miles west of kerby the discovery was made by billy and john neal and bal cannon the strike is in what is known as tellurium ore and john neal and john hall who came in from the camp monday evening state that there is every indication of a large body the discovery was made about a week ago and the assays essays thus far secured run all the way from to per ton the same indications in either colorado or nevada would have caused a genuine stampede pede to the section but the peole of southern oregon are not inclined to undue excitement not even a great gold strike stirs them for it is generally conceded that josephine county contains one of the richest mineral belts on the pacific coast |