Show OREGON the baker city herald the transfer of the gold buo bug and friday properties from mahoney and mccarthy to frank wilson of salt lake has been completed the price was about mr wilson has placed a five stamp mill on the friday and will push development work the ore is free milling and runs rung about 14 per ton baker city herald the prairie diggings quartz mine near canyon city has been sold for to E J foster and wi F shaler of grass valley Yichi michigan in aan M D winder of spokane and I 1 B hammond of portland there are five mills on the group and a water power that cost over for ditches the ledge which is from to feet wide is mineralized throughout 45 samples taken from it giving an average assay of 8 the led ledge ge has been exposed for feet and a depth of feet the ore from this was run through a five stamp mill of small capacity and produced from 2500 to per month baker city herald superintendent A W thatcher accompanied by sheriff A H huntington and A W kirby came down from the geiser hills yesterday morning 11 burdened with the september cleanup from that most famous of all eastern oregon bullion producers the treasure amounted to and was deposited in the citizens bank to the credit of the consolidated bonanza gold mining company sumpter miner E E cleaver came in from quartzburg Quartz burg this forenoon and left for pendleton he says that the sensation in mining circles over that way this week is a strike of very rich ore in the nineteen hundred mine quartzburg Quartz burg district the reliable details detail of which he could not give cleaver brothers are taking out some very good ore from an extension of the standard which they own prospects never locked brighter for the john day country he says canyon city news sam jackson has taken a lease and bond on the mining claims zero and piedmont property of mason and finlayson and the estate the claims are located on canyon mountain near the great northern mine and mr jackson is making makina t arrangements to move up there and at once begin work he is an old miner of this county and he is one of those who believe that there is a good ledge of ore some where on on canyon mountain and that in following stringers and hunting pockets he is liable to run onto it |