| Show OREGON glendale news T W billings expects to drive feet more of tunnel this vinter on his terra H mine which has the earmarks of a great gold producer baker city herald the oregon mining development company ow owners ners of the tom paine mine sent out a new gasoline en an gine today and an exhauster they have deac reached h ed 66 feet and are still working with full force mr H L mclain is manager and vice president and J L rand is president glendale news the burns co of marial is now operating a large force of 0 men on their mule mountain mine and are preparing to install a 4 stamp mill on the property at once on ce they surely deserve success as the company has gone to enormous expense in getting the machinery on the ground by means of a gasoline boat sumpter miner william left this forenoon for the gipsy queen with a wagon load of men and provisions to resume work on that property A shaft is being sunk at the mouth of the tunnel which runs on the vein in most places above the ore shoot for a distance of feet at present no attempt will be made to sink the shaft below the water line but as soon as pumps can be installed it will go down several hundred feet baker city herald the cyanide plant at the I 1 X L mine in the greenhorns greenhorne Green horns is doing good work blaus proving the efficiency of that process when applied to the ores of the southern sub district the plant is under the supervision of george A carter formerly superintendent of the white swan A mechanical agitator is being employed and is effiec ting an almost perfect percolation which results in a very high percentage of saving sumpter miner M E bain brought in arith with him some good looking rock from i the overland sunday and had several assays essays madeam made at different offices he received his returns yesterday and twelve cents was the greatest difference between any two running from 2805 to 2817 a most unusual result as assays essays from the same piece of rock frequently vary several dollars this demonstrates that the values are exceptionally uniform and quite satisfactory withal jacksonville sentinel wednesday a donkey engine was taken to the sturgis mine and a full electric light plant arrived here friday and will be taken at once to the mine this machinery is for an electric light plant that is to be installed at the mine to furnish light for the night shift to work by and for lighting the houses and the store belonging to the company As soon as the lights are up piping will be carried on night and day so as to utilize all the water during the wet season john day news one of the longest tun tuli nels in the greenhorn district is said to be k the scandia the crosscut cross cut out is now into the huge mountain ald side a distance of 2600 teet feet it is expected that the ledge will be en countered in feet more this will make the total length of the tunnel tunnel to the points of intersection with with the ledge 3 feet i this long tunnel of more than one hal half f mile J t will only place the company in touch with j the te ledge at the nearest point and when the drifts are run along the ledge the dis will be immense the formation has tance ce been unusually hard but as greater depth ls is attained tho the ground is becoming less bard j and progress more satisfactory jacksonville sentinel the millionaire mine ane in the blackwell district is now giving promise of being an ore producer that will bring wealth to its owner davidson super A co of portland J E davidson superintendent of the mine was in jacksonville sunday and had with him a lot of rock that was fully half gold that had been taken from a nea new find made this past week in the second shaft that they are now sinking this shaft is now down 70 feet afeei and the ore body opened up is of good width and extra rich on an adjoining ledge mr davidson has sunk a shaft to 90 feet and in it too a fine body of ore was found so that there is now little doubt but what the mine has the ore to make it profitable to work it davidson ward co own acres on which the millionaire mine is located and it is all mineral land and been dug over by pocket hunters and then kept by the them m as containing nothing more worth digging for the millionaire mine was discovered where a pocket hole had been sunk and it is probable that other good veins will be opened up when deep prospecting is undertaken |
