Show OREGON sumpter american at whitney it is reported that ex sheriff A H huntington has opened some very good gravel on his gimlet creek property the extent of the placer strike was not known but some of the stuff taken out of a pocket or especially rich part of the diggings was a gentle reminder of olden days when placer wealth was uncovered glendale news adam tein came in yesterday from his golden wedge mine in the galice district he informs us that development work is being vigorously pushed on this rich property and that he would not dispose of the mine for four times the amount he paid for it last month glendale news samples of ore that carry the yellow metal at the rate of from 40 to per ton have been brought to town from a strike recently made on galice creek west of glendale by J C mattison and F N mitchell these men have uncovered a two foot ledge traceable on the surface for a distance of feet much of the outcroppings outcrop pings carrying free gold in large quantities extensive development will be pushed on this property at once and no doubt it will soon be in the list 0 four gold producers jacksonville sentinel W M miller and C T davidson were home sunday from the blackwell district where they are employed on the millionaire mine this company is having two shafts put down to the foot level when drifts will be run to test the extent of the ledge one of the shafts is now down over ninety feet and the other over forty feet the ore so lar ar is showing up finey and there appears to be plenty of it which gives the assurance that the millionaire lio is to be one of the profitable mines of jackson county baker city herald three hundred sacks of fabulously rich ore from a shallow shaft shaf t on the tabor fraction has been shipped to the mcewan mcewan sampling works at sumpter for crushing amalgamating and retorting tor ting the ore came from a streak twenty two inches wide in the bottom of a seventy foot shaft in some of the samples taken from this streak the ore is so rich that it contains more gold than quartz it resembles the wonderfully rich rock taken from the foot level of the golconda mine in the fall of 1899 when the whole who lecamp camp was startled the rich streak in the tabor fraction shows no signs of giving out where the ore was first struck a short drift is being run to determine the length and trend of the shoot when these facts are determined sinking will be resumed the tabor fraction is owned by the geiser hendryx investment company of which al geiser former owner of the great bonanza mine is the senior member geiser is living up to his reputation as lucky AL jacksonville sentinel frank E kalb of amsterdam N Y and treasurer of the new york western mines company accompanied compa nied by H E foster and A H gunnell of grants pass western managers for the company arrived in jacksonville sunday the object of kalbs trip to jacksonville was to make the last payment on the oregon bell located on forest creek seven miles west of jacksonville which his company purchased of john broad and thomas reed last fall for the gentlemen were met in jacksonville by W C kitto their superintendent in charge of the oregon bell and by him taken to the mine where they spent monday and part of tuesday now that the mine is theirs and having invested in it they do not propose to let it lie undeveloped long and it is their intention this winter to put in a large mill the power to be electrical and from the ray dam if arrangements can be made and a large force of in men en will be put to work the development work done under superintendent kitto has proven that the oregon bell has an immense quartz ledge of high grade ore and as it is easily mined and in a location convenient to transportation por tation the mine should become one of the most profitable in southern oregon |