Show OREGON baker city herald working to the end of having its reduction plant ready to begin work in early spring the kent reduction company has just received several carloads of machinery made especially for its process of treating ore H W kent the manager has been in the east for some time and is expected home in a few days in his absence mr fackenthal of brooklyn N Y has been managing and directing work on the companas comp anys property in washington gulch and most of the preparations necessary to receive the heavy machinery have been made sumpter american D R evans owner of the cougar mine in the granite district arrived this week fr from oi spokane and left lef t at once for the mine he was accompanied by chas wadham and arthur wadham mining men who will be there for some days thoroughly examining the property it is under understood stood that the lease of the national mining leasing company on the cougar has been annulled and mr evans is now negotiating with other parties for the sale of the property with the probability that it will be soon turned over to parties with ample capital and ability to make the mine pay sumpter american last sunday the consummation of a deal whereby the climax and golconda mines in the cracker creek districts were e to be taken over by san franc francisco capital was made public it has been known for some time that such a deal was under way but it was not until the first of the week that it had reached the point where it could be made public As a result the impetus of new life is already being felt in the mines of the cracker creek district and the opening of these properties is looked upon with much favor san francisco capital is back of the enterprise headed by J H hunt of that that place giving assurance that extensive operations are to be carried on associated with the deal are also F AT meyers a prominent seattle mining man and W H jackson who is 15 well known locally as a mining man the latter is now on the ground getting the work under way laying in supplies and putting things in shape for immediate work |