Show OREGON sumpter american frank robb a mining man inan of utah sampled some cove property this week getting 15 average ore the name of the property cannot be given at this time as there is a sale pending baker city democrat the frisco mine six sh x miles northeast of this city owned by the frisco mining company is in with the I 1 latest sensational strike on saturday a new ledge was cut and the ore crushed in a mortar yields as high as seventy five cents to the pan baker city democrat president dupuis of the empire mining alining company having n failed to bring the owners of the don jaun mill to satisfactory terms will at once order a new mill direct from the manufacturers and have the same put up this fall on the richmond mine grants pass mining journae Jour journal nai sam L jones one of the owners of the gold bug property and J D ludwig of mariposa cal and R A jones superintendent of the gold bug mine left thurida thursday y morning with team to look after some properties at althouse sumpter american R C cottel of the greenhorn mountains has just finished a foot crosscut on the chloride group the tunnel gives feet depth cutting two feet of high grade ore A tenton ten ton test at the sumpter pter smelter gave 50 per ton returns it is reported baker city democrat A fine set of pumping machinery has just been purchased for the gold ridge mine and has been billed to arrive fl from am portland at baker city within 1 a I few days and on its arrival it will be immediately hauled by wagon to the mine and installed by manager nichols sumpter american the columbia mine will add twenty stamps boits present capacity of ten and this with its new cyanide and chemical plant will it is claimed increase its capacity from tons annually to or three times its present yearly output the mine is also putting down a three compartment shaft anc and I 1 has ordered an immense pump oreon oregon ore on mining journal J B R harvey of the old channel mining nai n ing co with his wife arrived at grants pass on wednesday from their galice creek property and returned by their own conveyance on thursday Thur day mr air harvey says they have a large I 1 force of men at work repairing and improving the alexander bent property which they have recently acquired they have ulso also a force of men at work on the old channel mine at six mile creek this season they intend io to run three giants r on that property and four at the alexander bent lawton st standard the Tein tempest pest mine situated on the summit of the greenhorn mountains has started a foot tunnel to tap the vein at the feet depth the tempest is ship shipping high grade ore to the sumpter smelter every day and will have ample tests made with a view of ascertaining the proper method of treatment the ores throughout this section are base but contain sufficient copper and the other fluxes to make them easy smelting smelling sm elting 1 propositions sumpter miner another ledge of fine ore has been cut on the umpqua group this was encountered at the end of a 75 foot drift on the chance claim while the full extent of the ledge is not visible there i is some ten to fifteen feet of ore of a similar character to the rock found in the gold hill claim of the group and very similar to the rich ore found in the red boy baker city democrat al Gei the alewe blewette Ble ats owners of the brazos mine have commenced the building of a railroad between their mine one and a half mi miles es in in leda length th to pleasant valley alley 11 the nearest railroad station on the 0 R N line their new mill will soon aown be in operation and the development now nov being done makes it an assured fact that this will be one of the largest producers in the baker city camp quite a boom has been started in the district surrounding the brazos and what has heretofore been considered unproductive property is is rapidly coming to the front sumpter miner during the recent visit to this camp of captain charles renier re nier cr of cincinnati the working bond on the baby mckee group in the cable cove district which is being beina 11 developed by colonel john T h grayson was taken up and instead of the usual installment payments the entire amount of money in one sum was paid over and the deed given for the property |