Show OREGON the alexander bent hydraulic placer mine on galice gal ice cr creek eek has been sold to the old channel 21 mining ining company for sumpter miner the sumpter 0 smelter was fired up wednesday night for the first time at 2 a m the first firs t lot of ore was shoveled into the furnace and in one hour and twenty minutes later matte was running I 1 lawton standard on friday last the bonanza mining e company laid off forty six miners pending further depth and the opening za up of new ground deep sinking is in progress and when another level is reached the miners will be put to work again lawton standard A rich strike is reported this week in the south cou cougar ar mine near lawton but up to the time of going to press verification of the rumor could not be obtained the f he south cougar is well situated and more than likely the rumor is true oreon oregon ore on mining journal corliss rush whose rich strike we chronicled in last weeks journal have just bonded their claims the double eagle from which the rich rock was taken out and the lucky queen for to a mr brown of colorado mr brown will immediately start in to develop the property in colorado style savle lawton standard the red boy people have recently broken into a body or of very rich ore indeed it is said the deposit surpasses in richness anything ever before found either in grant or baker counties A miner working in one of the of this property estimates that per ton would be a low estimate for some of the quartz taken out this week lawton standard parties up from the northford northfork north fork this week say that some very pretty bodies of ore have been uncovered in the nonpareil and homestake Home Rome stake mines the former owned by sam willson and boise city parties 1 and the latter by joe robison and tom johnson the properties are adjoining and are considered the most promising quartz showing in that section development is being pushed as rapidly as possible on both the nonpareil and homestake Home stake baker city democrat crat the winterville Wint erville diggings of mr austin co are proving provin to be great gold producers several hundred dollars have been brought to this city for shipment to the mint yesterday mr austin brought in 1500 more in the cleanup were we re a num berof nuggets 0 averaging in value from 50 to 60 the lot was picked up from bedrock lying around loose about the middle of the month a final cleanup of the he t season will be made and it is expected the amount of gold obtain obtained cd will be very large baker city democrat mr Joso jos uW Waddel addel manager of the hurdy gurdy group of claims on elkhorn moti mountain fitin is making arrangements to resume development work on the property this week al campbell will have charge crew the hurdy gurdy is a promising property with considerable ore on the dump that will go from 20 to 30 per ton a of the main development work c consists tunnel which is being run to tap the ledge at I 1 great depth the tunnel is now in between to and feet and it is the intention therein vein li it the crosscut the ledge this season if as strong at that tha t point as it would indicate the the surface the mine will soon be amor among 1 10 producers |