Show OREGON baker city herald A second payment has been made on the tom paine mine by E J powers for the yellowstone gold mining company the purchasers this is conclusive proof that the property is passing into hands not for the purpose of selling and doing a brokerage business on the mine but to make it a producer every indication points to work beginning at the mine within a couple of weeks and then the district west of baker city will have the benefit of a wine mine running that produces the bullion it is believed this will act as a stimulus to that section of the county and that other properties there will be worked soon sumpter american we have undercut the vein at the hidalgo after some seven months strenuous work said ed tomkins of the tomkins brothers who have been developing the promising group the past three years in the office of the american wednesday he continued it looks like we will be repaid for our work as the vein has been reached at a depth of nearly feet is almost eight feet wide and assays essays of ore like this showing fine specimens of heavy sulphide give values of 10 to 22 per ton while a small streak assays essays as high as 60 per ton tests made on the ores show a concentration of six in one and we shall now drift to fully determine the extent of the pay shoot on this level if it will hold out for some feet till we get underneath the ore opened in tunnel 2 1 I think we can safely claim to have a producer and are already promised the funds for a concentrating plant sumpter american that a resumption of operations at the rich quebec mine is very probable is the prevailing opinion of the examination now in progress last saturday hal S corbett a prominent attorney of paducah ky and J S powers a prominent eastern mining engineer arrived and with dick addoms the well known mining man left for the properties for a preliminary inspection while nothing definite has been announced antoune ed it is understood that mr powers is highly pleased with the showing and recommended that work be resumed the objective being the op opening enitia of the ore bodies at depth the mine was the scene of great activity some five years ago and has been opened by some 2500 feet of tunnels shafts and raises in all the upper workings good ore ranging from 5 to 20 per ton was found and on the showing in two shoots developed in tunnels 1 and 2 a ten stamp mill was installed grants pass courier the takilma smelter at waldo blew in last monday and about twenty five large wagons are now hauling coke out from here with all the way from two to eight horses to a wagon and it is expected they will be bringing in the copper matte tomorrow the distance from here to waldo is forty five miles and it requires five days to make a round trip from here taking out a load of coke and coming in with a load of matte this slow time is largely due to the heavy roads over a portion portio fl of the route this smelter has a capacity of ten tons per day but the topper copper ore in the vicinity of the smelter is so easily smelted smelter that the plant often handles tons per day an un usual lot of ore is already on the jump dump and much more has been blocked out this will probably be one of the heaviest sea j sons the takilma has yet experienced j but the better roads feature should merit the earnest consideration of the business interests of grants pass 0 |