Show IMPORTANT disclosures IN THE BABY MINE correspondence L grants pass ore oct 24 at a depth of feet in the long tunnel that is being driven in to tap the ore body of the baby mine of jump off joe district at great depth the main ledge has been found and a fino fine vein of quartz uncovered the rock resembles that of the famous greenback located a few miles farther north in that it is a ribbon and clear quartz much of it pure white with large grains of virgin gold glittering through all parts of of it the values in sulphur ets are also heavy the strike is the result of much hard and systematic works work under the supervision of C 0 higgins formerly of salt lake city the baby is the property of the capital city gold mining company of sacramento having been purchased by them several months ago and has been under development by them since that time the baby has pro deuced for a number of f years but the men who owned and operated it were satisfied with scratching the surface gouging out the values and getting the gold with no regard to future development A two stamp mill has been operated and ground out good values from the ore of the upper levels mr higgins discarded the old way of doing things and went down the mountain some som e distance below the old workings and began driving a tunnel to tap the ledge at greater depth the recent strike is the reward of his hard and systematic work the baby is fast growing from an embryo to a very healthful and promising infant when sufficiently developed it will be equipped with adequate machinery and worked on an extensive scale one of the big enterprises that will mean much for the mines and farms of southern oregon as well as its manufacturing interests was completed or at least the main structure was completed this past week this is the power dam of the condor water power company that is being built across rogue river above this city at tolo the river is now allowed to run over the dam and the work of installing the turbines and machinery will begin at adnee once so soon as the wheels are ready for work power will be conveyed by wire to the surrounding towns and mines the condor company owns a number of quartz properties in the gold hill district which they will develop when it gets power to them to operate the compressors and drills when the water was turned from the main river into the canal that had been cut around the dam a few weeks ago the discovery was made that the gravel odthe of the old rogues bed is rich in gold A little prospecting proved it to be immensely rich sit V 71 much of it giving returns of from 5 to 20 a pan since making this discovery the condor company has decided that it will be a paying thing for them to increase the length of the canal and expose a greater area of the river bed C R ray manager of the enterprise believes they will get or more from the bed of the river and as they own all of the lands on both sides of the stream between the dam and gold hill a distance of five miles they will be able to work a large part of the rivers bottom next summer they will divert the water from the main channel of the river turn it through the canal and build sluices on the river bottom into which the rich gravel will be washed and robbed of its gold the proposed oregon pacific railroad has been surveyed from grants pass to eureka cal and right of way secured this road will connect with a line that I 1 is building north into eureka this past week the president and chief engin engineer ber of the proposed road made a trip of inspection over the surveyed route and report that all is ready for the construction of the line the same people that are behind this road also own the copper mines of the waldo smelt ing mining company at waldo by which the new railroad is to pass the copper mines of the waldo smelting smelling Sm elting mining company are well developed however a considerable crew of men is kept at work continually keeping them in order as they are to be operated on a large scale when they are connected with the outside world by rail colonel T W draper manager of the mines states that next spring a small smelter will be installed at the mines and the properties operated to as great a capacity as the equipment will allow the smelter will be increased in capacity when the railroad is built the mines are located forty miles south of grants pass and are that distance from the nearest railway point A southern oregon branch of the oregon mining association was formed in grants pass this past week S chase was elected chairman and D H stovall secretary W il 1 I hampton was elected vice president and a member of the state executive board the southern oregon branch of the association will have a membership of at least when all of the miners are enlisted the new york western mines company through their southern oregon representatives senta tives foster gunnell have made a final payment on the oregon belle mine of Forest Creek district and are putting in a compressor and air drills to drive a long tunnel and open up the mine in a systematic way the ledge of this property is a strong one both in in formation and values the deep gravel mining company of waldo has installed a hydraulic elevator at their hydraulic placers this company has also improved and overhauled its entire diggings this past summer the ditches have been widened and deepened flumes blumes rebuilt and new piping laid the mines will enter the seasons work much better prepared for business than ever before the halftone half tone cut accompanying this article shows two giants at work in the royal gulch mines on galice creek this monster bank towers feet in height at the point s shown hown and has a length of over 1000 feet it carries gold from grass roots to bedrock the giants work it from a distance of feet the big streams gnaw at its face under ulder a gravity pressure of feet and the dirt falls off in slabs of tons it is at these mines that the waratah minerals company is installing a plant for the mining of platinum DENNIS H STOVALL |