Show OREGON lawton standard salt lake city men are opening up the keystone group in pleasant valley baker city herald the operators of the tempest mine in the greenhorn district on which a rich strike was made a short time ago ao o are preparing to ship the ore to the tacoma smelters shelters sm elters it is said to run in the neighborhood of per ton they have made arrana arrangements cements with the sumpter forwarding co for handling the ore the tempest is owned by bennett son of the Tri triangle anale r 0 mills of this city baker city herald the road from weiser to the seven devils is being r put through as ag rapidly as men can do the work men alen go to the front and six camps are now distributed alono along 11 the line most of the men are being put on the grade and this will be finished should the weather continue favorable in about a month the grading is now done as far as council into which place the track is beino being 6 laid sumpter miner A brief mention of the fact that the grizzl grizzly y gold cold mining company working property on the summit near the granite road had broken into a vein of copper bearing ore was made last week since then it has been learned they have cut through the vein which carried the copper values and report full eight I 1 feet of it good looking samples of the ore with a particularly large percentage of copper pyrites well scattered through it are displayed at the companas comp anys office on mill street baker city democrat the neatest and best equipped assay office in oregon outside of portland is that just established by mr D W C nelson to be known as the central assay office it is located on center street between front and first in the rear of the citizens bank the offices consist of two rooms new and neatly papered and painted a cosy little reception room or office with laboratory in the rear the latter is supplied with all the chemicals and materials for assaying and analyzing any character of ore sumpter american the freight yards of the sumpter valley railway are completely covered with mining machinery and many cars cara are standing on the ilie sidetracks side tracks awa awaiting itin unloading in the past week twelve cars were rl received ce ived ta three ahree for the red boy mine three for the baby mckee mine one for the bad badger ger m mine ine two for forthe the columbia mine and three thre ll 11 for the bald mountain mine these make inake a total of twenty two cars received in the past twelve days the aga aggregate weight of the mining machinery received at sumpter in the past month was vas nearly one and a half million pounds when the balance of the red ked boy bald mountain and Al mammoth ammoth plants arrive this amount will be increased by at least pounds in addition to the immense quantities of mining machinery that are being received the sumpter for warding ward ing co are handling on an average three cars of supplies and merchandise each day while the local freight receipts average four cars each day |