Show OREGON sumpter american what superintendent walker terms a phonolite dike is being crossed in the cracker oregon while driving to connect the shaft with the adit tunnel Rhon phonolite olite has not been regarded of frequent occurrence here and if it is the true stuff at the cracker oregon added interest will be given development there this crosscut passed through an old river channel at a depth of forty feet from the surface the phonolite is on the of this old channel grants pass observer the rich baby mine on jump off joe was bonded this week to C C higgins a mining man of salt lake city and a member of the governing board odthe of the salt lake stock exchange mr higgins hab has been een in this country for the past weeks looking over the mines of jose bele DPI e and was favorably struck by the good shaping Ping ing of the baby he has a number of biaxial and enterprising people behind and ved it is their purpose to forma form a corn com the ami proceed with the development of ling the B R the property will be dyste matir mati ally cally and thoroughly opened up and prepared to begin a big business the baby Is one of the few quartz mines that can boast of paying for its own development the th e values of the ores removed in driving the tunnels and sinking the shafts have coonly paid for such work but have also paid for the two stamp mill and other machinery that has been installed with adequate development and enterprising management such as the baby is promised in the future it is destined to become one of the prominent bullion producers in southern oregon huntington herald A M curtis of mal huer city says that the mines in that district are making a good showing the black eagle is putting in a splendid mill which wi will soon be in running order the mine has plenty of ore in sight and while it is low grade there are thousands and thousands of tons of it the red white and blue mine a neighbor of the black eagle is another fine property they are putting in a new boiler in the hoisting plant and are pushing development work the ore runs 10 a ton sumpter american H A mitchell who is driving the red chief tunnel says a fine breast is had in the upper workings two tunnels are going in at the same time the lower one being intended for the adit and will be carried ahead 1000 feet without stopping the ore reached in this a few days ago was found to be in a broken condition as the work is near the surface the ore found in the upper tunnel will be more permanent as a depth of feet has been attained there the vein is the full width of the bore on an average and sometimes spreads to seven feet grants pass mining journal H E foster of foster gunnell western managers of the new york western mines company was in town tuesday he says they have a force of six men at work on their thompson group of quartz claims on coyote creek he says they have struck a ledge about eighty feet from the surface and have opened up a nice body of ore they started their development work last october and have been steadily at work ever since his company intend installing jackson drills at the earliest opportunity this company has also some properties in jackson county which they are developing A private assay work and office has been opened up in booths building on F street A special from grants pass says A good quartz strike has been made on josephine creek the pioneer mining district of the state by dour bour and day two miners of that section A ledge ten feet in width and from which the free gold glitters visibly has been uncovered the ledge can be traced on the surface for a distance of feet josephine creek was mined extensively during the early days but when the shallow bars and gravel banks were worked off the pioneers were done and the district was abandoned for many years not until re centhy has it been prospected to any extent for ledges and the success being met in this regard proves that district is one of great promise as a quartz gold producer sumpter miner W H mead of spokane who has been in the sumpter district for several months was in the city on monday and tuesday for some time he has been prosecuting development work on the gladstone group consisting of five claims located ten miles northwest of sumpter this group was bonded from I 1 E rose by mr mead and associates who have organized under the name of the interstate inter state mining company since taking charge of the property they have been running a tunnel which will cut one of the ledges when in about feet As this tunnel has not yet intersected the vein mr mead is reticent about giving out any data however a few days since the purchase price of the group was paid over |