Show OREGON sumpter american manager van vleet of the gold bug had an assay certia certificate acate this week showing the result of two assays essays made from grab samples taken from the dump of the portal of the gold bug tunnel one of these went above 1500 and t the he other above 1700 there is about seventy five tons of ore in this dump which will be shipped in the springy spring as the management says it averages a high shipping grade grants pass mining journal our representative was called into the offices of new york western mines company on wednesday to look at some rock that had just been brought in from their riLl thompson homPson group of mines on north fork 0 of f coyote I 1 c reek creek the mines had been closed down for a week to make some changes but now have a full cre crew w of men at work again this rich body of ore was struck in t the lie north no ah drift of the tunnel fifty feet from w where e 4 re the crosscut cross cut tunnel intersects and in about eighty feet from the surface the rich streak is eight to twelve teet leet wide the rich pay ore is on hang hanging ng wall ledge about ten feet wide the specimen of rock r oc k is handsome quartz and gold can plainly be seen in the same this property i is situated about two miles north of greenback and alid about one mile south of scribner hendersons mine baker city herald joe meikle formerly superintendent of the golconda which position he resigned to accept the general management of the black eagle gold mining companas comp anys property in malheur malteur county is in the city today he reports that the new twenty stamp mill at the black eagle is running full blast crushing ore from the great malheur malteur porphyry dyke at the unprecedented ce rate of tons per day the ore is averaging close to 5 on the plates and so economically is the mine being operated that the total cost of mining and milling is less than 1 per ton this leaves a handsome margin of profit the ore is quarried an adit level runs from the mill into the base of the hill upraises Up raises at two points connect with the surface beginning at the grass grabs roots the ore is broken down for the th e entire width of the dyke feet and shot down the upraises up raises into ore cars in the adit eventually a double track will be placed in the adit the level will be extended more upraises up raises will be made and the mill increased to perhaps stamps the black eagle will then rival the homestake Home stake of the black hills and the treadwell of alaska |