Show OREGON sumpter american ira lemon the well known miner has accepted the position of foreman at the morning mine A large crew is employed at the property both sloping and at development work the morning mill is running night and day and proving quite successful sumpter american edmond R willet stopped over in sumpter Siim pter last monday afi on his way from susanville sanville Su to his home at ar trenton new jersey mr willett is interested te rested in the kennerly gold mining company the newly organized corporation that took over the ophir property in the susan ville district a couple of month ago he is well pleased with the blue mountains and expects to return to Su sanville vy by the first of october at the ophir mr willet states stales things running smoothly with ten stamps dropping on ore and in the shaft miners are sinking on to the level with the shaft following good ore huntington herald frank pearce manager of the iron dyke mine at homestead accompanied by mr Cu chrisey Curl rIsey sey of erie pennsylvania passed through huntington early in the we week ek on his way to bak baker e r city mr curtsey is a heavy stockholder in the mine and has been looking the property over with a view to erecting new buildings and installing more machinery it is said that they contemplate the erection of a large smelter in the near future I 1 and will operate the mines on a larger scale from baker clity mr curtsey went to tacoma where he owns a large plant for the manufacture of locomotive engines grants pass courier C W nr thompson thomps s on of the greenback mine arrived in town thursday morning mr thompson and mr J P anderson have taken the mine on a working bond and they expect to be dropping fifteen stamps by the middle of next week and will inc increase the rhe buu u umber up to forty stamps mr ehg 11 11 SOl went with the company in 1897 and took charge of the j property that fill t the greenback mine has produced nearly or quite in gold and the gentlemen who have taken the bond feel satisfied that it will again become a large producer mr thompson says the mine is in direct charge of mr anderson baker city herald the indiana mine out near medical springs is to begin work on august according to reports circulated today miners are being gathered together and from what they say it seems the company intends to continue work indefinitely when once it begins offices are being established in this ams city and one of the company officers will be in charge with the indiana for some time will have general management of all the work following ope operation radon on the big mines will come renewed energy in putting the gold en star on a producing basis this is a gold property and one that has shown a great deal of merit in the past it is located a few miles from north powder sumpter american the amazon property in the greenhorn section is the scene of active development operations this is the group of claims sold last spring by andy larsen of greenhorn to the amazon mining company W F prier is in charge of the work the amazon vein shows an average width between walls of close to thirty feet the ore carrying diee gold valets with some concentrates the underground work now under way is 13 in a tunnel driving on the vein the tunnel is now in feet with the objective point feet beyond the face A depth of feet will be attained when this point is reached three shifts are employed in the tunnel and it is being pushed with all possible speed mr prier is now installing a small saw mill at the mine with which feet of lumber will be cut at once for use in building a flume also some new buildings for the of the miners the amazon is located on lightning creek about two and a half miles from the town of greenhorn G |