Show OREGON del norte record thomas R higgins and judge john A street and two sons formerly of salt lake utah but at present of grants pass oregon are registered at the del norte these gentlemen are interested in our mineral resources and will make a thorough examination throughout the country while here accompanied by E E winters they went into the hills to examine some mining minine properties last thursday sumpter miner the alta group embracing four claims owned by W R banks and J D casey situated near the town of mal heur has been sold to J W and new jersey parties who have organized the malheur malteur gold mining company lumber is ordered for the necessary buildings and if the weather will permit it is the intention of the company to put in a huntington mill and diligently prosecute work all through the winter months baker city herald the famous old ahbe phoenix mine at robinsonville near the famous bonanza mine has been sold for practically cash tho the details of the trade were made saturday but all the papers were not signed at the time the well known property was owned by 0 M berry C M collier len barnett and D L choate who were equal partners owning a fourth interest each for some time the mine has been under lease to hopp and saunders who are at present operating it there has been some disagreement among the owners concerning the management of the mine and it was decided for this reason to sell it the matter was placed in the hands of C C nipple who wha en engineer t crine ered edthe the deal sumpter kumpt r american word was received this week from bay city mich that the syndicate composed of P F W wheeler of detroit mich alich J C werner of pittsburg pa C W slivers of west bay city mich and J A gilbert of bay city mich had purchased and shipped a five stamp mill to be immediately installed on the black hawk group which they recently acquired the group is located in the robinsonville district adjoining the virginia 0 group the latter now being extensively developed by a seattle syndicate the property was formerly owned by H W tracy and is ia developed by shafts open cuts i and tunnels on the vein from which mr oraey has been producing 5 to 15 per day by a crude hand mortar process the new owners will begin active development work thoroughly exploiting the or ore bodies and may later on install a deep sinking plant canyon city news W H butler brought in a sample of ore recently from the daniel boone claim in quartz gulch that will go 2000 to the ton estimated he says they have taken out pounds of rock that is as rich as this sample and that the ledge from which this was taken pans out rich from the very grass roots they are sinking on the ledge and are down five feet and mr butler says the rock is getting better as they go down the daniel boone was located only about ten days ago and those interested in the claim are mr butler frank foster wm gregg john cullen and mel goldsby mr butler states that the work will be pushed and the property developed de delope d as rapidly as possible butler does not seem to be excited by the find but believes that he and his partners have a rich permanent ledge he says that tuesday evening he took a of dirt from where they were working last and washed out 20 quartz gulch is three miles east eastok of town between canyon mountain and strawberry range and the daniel boone is about 1000 feet from ike aukers great northern mine which has produced thousands of dollars |