Show southwestern OREGON MINING NEWS by george W the sylvanite mine near gold hill has started work with a small crew under direction of george haff dr linderman representing pittsburg capital interested in the property is recasting Z the finances of the company and there is is every prospect that within a short time the property will be in production once again hardy and williams are opening the mountain king mine in the meadows district north of gold hill the millionaire mine one of the promising ones of southwestern oregon located about three miles from gold hill has been taken over on lease by olson and lively of the sunset smelter who plan on further development to provide ore for the smelter while southwestern oregon does not make any claim that it is the original sacred precinct where the streets are paved with gold it has about one mile of auto road ballasted ballested bal lasted with 17 gold ore the explanation is si aple A certain mine mine encountered considerable slate during its development which was considered waste and thrown on the dump recently an examination of the dump uncovered pieces of the slate with free gold visible to the eye an ali investigation was at once made and with result that all of the slate was found to be gold bearing twenty four samples taken from the road ballast assayed better than 17 to the ton in gold ballast is being provided for the road from another source now at the stockholders meeting of the sunset smelter company held at gold hill last week a new board of dir directors was elected as follows C A olson president J M lively vice president A C hough secretary david olson of eugene V C carter of eugene and SE S eheler reber ling hing there is is one vacancy to fill yet the board expects to organize within a few days and take definite steps to push the work of construction of a 50 ton smelter on their site near the city of gold hill it is understood that a mace furnace will be installed eastern capitalists are entering the field and acquiring properties for the production of black sands for their gold old and platinum values the sands to be treated at the plant t of the metals extraction refining corporation at grants I pass ilass lass with platinum at an ounce and iridium at an ounce this phase of mining offers off ers attractions to those experienced in pla cering owners are arranging to equip to save the black sands in practically all the placers of the district and with the return of the water season placer mining will formo form one neof of the strong arms of the mining industry five stamps are dropping at the greenback near leland the first day and a half run produced abbick a brick of over seven ounces of gold which was brought in last week with the development of ore reserves additional stamps will be dropped from time to time until the whole equipment of 40 stamps are in commission the greenback produced 2 92 during the period it was operated and it is predicted that under the management of the present owners it will soon gain its old stride and become one of the heavy producers of the pacific coast julius J seidel of chicago an officer of the western metals mines company has been visiting the companas comp anys properties in the galice district as the guest of perry B wickham the local manager representatives of anderson brothers of vancouver washington who have financed the work of developing the blue jay mine on greens creek visited the property the past week they are much interested in the development of southwestern oregon and predict a bright future for this region the metals extraction refining cor corporation horation po ration are engaged in installing another plant on rogue river to demonstrate on strate the most efficient methods for saving the black sands for their gold and platinum values |