Show southwestern OREGON MINING NEWS RICH GOLD STRIKES STILL BEING MADE by george W grants pass oregon aug 12 another big strike of high grade gold old ore came to light last week with tile the arrival at headquarters of the southwestern oregon mining bureau of specimens of quartz carrying free gold in goodly quantities from the steamboat mine on steamboat creek in in the upper applegate district in southern jackson county this property is located directly under the famous steamboat pocket of the early when in gold was taken from the surface enrichment and probably as much more from the creek below where the ledge had sloughed down the ore comes from a vein eighteen inches wide and is a bluefish white quartz of beautiful appearance undoubtedly the vein is one of the feeders of the famous old pocket and its discovery again demonstrates that had the early day pocket hunter put a portion of his recovery back into developing the ledge 3 from which the recovery was made many producing mines mines would have been opened up years ago the property is owned by bryant curtis and salem oregon men and is equipped with ditches pipe lines pelton wheel and a four stamp mill partially completed roscoe bratton and his brother J T bratton of portland who have been quietly developing the gold wonder property in the greenback district on coyote creek have demonstrated that their ledge 6 is fifty seven feet wide and of high value the last shot alio t saturday night b opened up a four inch pay streak that goes better than twenty cents to the pounds the work so far has proven tons of ore of good value by some feet of tunnels and crosscuts cross cuts sp 5 S F C butler los angeles mining man who took over the horseshoe mine on coyote creek last spring brought in 48 ounces of mortared gold ore the ore in in this property is sufficiently rich to pay the cost of development as same is is done even when pounded out by hand G F hayward operating the old shattuck mine in the applegate district struck rich ore last week with free gold plainly visible without a glass the property is equipped with a medford mill L R van de bogart of the blossom mine in the gold hill district attended the monthly i nee inee meeting ting of the bureau list hist saturday and reported that the equipment of the laboratory at the sunset smelter had been shipped tile the greenback mine is developing the old greenback vein at a depth of 1100 feet and the irish girl vein at depth of feet blocking out ore reserves it is reported to the bureau that the property owned by col 1 l 13 P F millard of and his son soil ray is showing up tip good and that arrangements are being made to mill the ore in n tile the five stamp mill at rogue river the property is located on foot creek the concrete foundations for the machinery at the millionaire 10 lio mine south of gold hill is completed by the tinie time the c concrete is set the machinery is expected to be on oil tile the ground ready for installation the plant will consist of grinding mill and a complete heavy duty oil flot flo flotation cioll unit the r first arst to be installed in southwestern oregon its idsal lation tion and operation will be watched closely by the mining fraternity the property was recently taken over under lease by olson and lively of the sunset smelter company paul robinson A W peterson and A L kullander of venonia oreon oregon ore 6 on who are interested in the kelmar vandet mine at gold hill visited the property this week and stated they were satisfied with the showing made in driving the foot tunnel and the outlook for the full development of the property |