| Show 1 I WI ito lei ito I 1 ik V GOLD FROM TIIE THE GALICE MINES A I 1 J V Specia 1 correspondence A A 5 grants pass ore aug 24 the accompanying illustrations are a reproduction of the gold membership card recently presented president roosevelt by the scribes of portland the gold from which the folding card was made certifying to his being elected an honorary life member of the city press club of portland came from the placers of the st helens galice mining company on galice creek southern oregon on 01 the back of the card is an engraving of a piper operating a giant and the inscription gold from the galice hydraulic mines when the president was presented the card he was most highly pleased have been dug and several thousands of feet of piping laid A large flume has also been constructed and an immense reservoir put in A sawmill has also been kept busy for a number of weeks past the sawmill Is cutting feet of lumber per day from the heavy fir and pine timber of the com banys claims on galice this lumber could not be purchased on the outside for less than 30 a thousand but the company operating its own mill and in its own timber cuts it for 7 A dam twenty two feet high of a double tier of logs filled in between with dirt and rock has been built at the head of the main high line ditch and on his return to washington wrote a personal letter to the secretary of the press club thanking the portland newspaper men and congratulating them on being residents of a state that can supply so fine a product the gold some three ounces in quantity came from nuggets furnished the press club gratis by A H cousin manager of the st helens galice mines when the next hydraulic season opens in southern oregon there will be at least three new and big placers equipped ready to commence work one of these will be that of the galice creek hydraulic mining company situated just below the properties of the st helens galice company and A 13 cousin couin the energetic manager of the st helens has also been made manager of the galice creek companas comp anys mines all summer mr cousin has had a large crew of men employed getting the galice crek creek companas comp anys mines ready for work ditches no ona one man or company of men have had the courage to install machinery and mine aver over there this past summer however two enterprising companies have taken hold and regardless of the fact of their having to take in all of their heavy machinery piping giants and provisions on the hack back of a pack pony or rather several of them they have worked with a vim that shows their determination to win oddly enough one of these companies is composed of missourians Missour ians men who ordinarily wait to be showed but who broke the rule this one time and took the initiative this company has a crew of twenty five men at work building the long ditches and flumes blumes that will convey the water down from carbury creek a tributary of steamboat this company has some acres of rich gravel and will operate two giants the other company at work in this remote district is the oro grand they have T i 4 IL V this res reservoir ervol r will store several acres of water and will afford a steady and constant pipe head the whole year through A store mes shouse office and lodging house has been built at the mines and on the site of the former old camp of galice making the place the most prepossessing it has been since the early days of half a century ago besides the big flume which will carry hundreds of tons of gravel a day there will be four or five giants at work night and day tearing down and driving through auxiliary sluices the rich gravel of the bank on both sides of the canyon two other new hydraulic mines that will add materially to next years output of placer gold from the southern oregon m mining in district are being equipped and made ready in the steamboat district steamboat has always been regarded as a very remote district it has been known to possess rich kich placer fields for many years but acres of rich gravel and will start three giants to work upon it this winter or with the arrival of the rains at present they have a crew of twenty men employed running ditches constructing flumes blumes and otherwise equipping the properties A small sawmill has been erected to cut a part of the heavy timber of the claims into lumber to build the flumes blumes and cabins as well as the mess and bunk houses the water supply afforded the steamboat section is very abundant the stream from which the ditches of these mines derive their water heads far up on grayback mountain which is snow covered for a long portion of the year although patsy dark clark the spokane copper king has abandoned the blue ledge mine on the upper applegate that district has not been retarded to any great extent by mr darks clarks departure no sooner did dark clark show signs of weakening than dr J F reddy manager and leading stockholder of the property began bestirring himself to find other capitalists to take up the proposition and the very day mr dark clark gave up a representative of an english syndicate was on the ground with experts ready to look over the property these people are now seriously considering the proposition of taking up the blue ledge in the way of developing the english syndicate will not be the only big company operating in the blue ledge district tor for the sweeneys millionaire mining men of spokane have secured several claims and are extensively developing them there are now over claims located in the district and the holders of each and all have great hopes as to the value of their properties mining men who have had experience in other copper districts of the west claim that the surface indications of the upper applegate district are as good as any of the celebrated copper sections of arizona montana or california DENNIS H STOVALL |
