Show OREGON the harry property on sucker creek in the holland district not far from grants pass has been taken over by california parties who have installed new machinery and are making plans for operating the quartz property all winter the old hammersley Hani mersley mine on jump off on joe creek near grants pass has been leased by randel arrowsmith and W H starks of superior arizona both former members of the field artillery division together with roy arrowsmith they have left for the property and are proceeding to get out ore satisfactory results have been accomplished in the development work that has been carried on in the britten chatham copper gold property near the head of patricks creek fourteen hundred feet of tunnel has been driven and shafts sunk to a total depth of feet J N britten of waldo is the owner there can be no doubt that homestead district of oregon will become one of the greatest sources of copper in the northwest says J J hayes manager of the copper syndicate in the homestead district baker county the evidence is to be found in the volume of ore disclosed at depth which runs into millions of dollars the surface indications which are large and geologically dependable and the disclosures by diamond drills the big mine of homestead and the one to which we point with pride is the iron dike it yielded carloads of fifty tons each in 1915 its first year and has been yielding steadily ever since the initial shipments were made from the surface where the ore contained 6 to 10 per cent copper and 6 to 8 in gold to the ton the valuation placed on the production of the first year is 1000 subsequent de has disclosed ore worth about it is contained in bodies of large size having a cupric content that approaches pro aches 4 per cent in addition to the gold and silver A monthly production of concentrates cen at the rate of 1000 tons is being made the copper syndicate owned by residents of spokane and tekoa adjoins the iron dike on the south and is feet from the railroad track two veins containing ore have been penetrated by a crosscut tunnel driven 1000 feet and a third vein is at hand all of our supplies and some used on other properties are bought in spokane |