Show Os good hys buys the old hamersley hm mersley correspondence p onda grants pass ore feb 24 F H osgood the seattle mining and railroad man who recently purchased the old hammersley mine of jump off joe di district is meeting with good success in cl clearing eiring out the old mine and getting it in shape for business if mr osgood meets with the same good fortune in this that he has in other southern oregon mining ventures it may be readily surmised that the hammersley so long abandoned will eventually become one of the big producers of this mineral zone two big pumps discharging gallons of water an hour are fast lowering the flood that has inundated the tunnels drifts and for several years the timbe rings are found to be in good condition so that when the water is cleared all will be in readiness for mining the hammersley produced many tons of rich ore in its time and closed down merely on account of an entanglement of its owners the mine is equipped with a good hoist five stamp mill and concentrator all in excellent condition there are three boilers the ledge of the hammersley is from one to three feet in width and the values are practically all free milling the vein lies at the same angle and on the same zone as the greenback three miles farther north the withdrawal of patsy dark clark from the blue ledge mine of the applegate district has not lessened the activity of that section in the least other parties have taken up the property and are opening it up dr reddy of spokane together with kinney euber 14 of southern oregon has purchased the one sixth interest of adams in the blue ledge dr reddy and associates have great confidence confidence in the property and are unshaken en in their belief that it will eventually become a big mine aside from the blue ledge a number of other very promising properties are being opened up in the upper applegate district the nabob is one of these and adjoins the blue ledge the nabob is ahe the property of bloomfield Jendl ness company kompany the ledge of the nabob is from 1 fifteen to twenty feet in width and carries ca excellent values in copper and gold spencer company also have several claims in the district which they are developing and which are showing up well with the work done the trend of all the veins of the blue ledge district is north and south south dipping westward the formation is schist ahe the old done bone of contention mine in the williams district south of grants pass which has had a various and varied career by reason of litigation since its debut as a gold producer several years ago has changed owners and this time it is believed the property will be in the hands of men who will devote their energy toward developing ve loping and working the property instead of fleecing fleeming flee cing each other portland men headed by F J catterline Cat are the purchasers of the done bone of contention the mine is ia equipped with an eight stamp mill and all necessary machinery for development and operation the new management has in view the completion of a crosscut cross cut tunnel to tap the main ore body at a depth of feet the big dredger of chaplin company which was recently launched on foots creek near grants pass and which is now receiving its machinery is one of the largest and most powerful ever built on any stream in the west it will have a capacity of 2200 cubic yards a day it is feet in length and thirty six feet in width and the power will be supplied by two monster boilers and three engines the forty buckets will have a capacity of eight cubic feet each and the machine will have a digging ability of eighty feet though the channel is such as to require but fifty feet and of only thirty for the great part the whole machine machines is built to cope with the many em barrass ments that have made dredging a failure on southern oregon streams in past years the machine will be ready for work some time in march the ground to be dredged has been thoroughly prospected and gives returns of from twenty five to thirty cents a yard the famous old oak flat hydraulic placer mine on illinois river josephine county has been acquired by southern oregon men and will be overhauled and shaped for work by them the oak flat placers are among the biggest and richest surface mines of southern oregon they are located on the lower illinois river and comprise several hundred acres of deep old channel the ground carries good values and the property is equipped with a first class hydraulic mining plant water is derived from briggs creek a tributary to the illinois and the supply is such as to keep the giants in operation for seven or eight months each season the cleopatra group of copper mines of the diamond creek district del norte county california are being developed by col J S crawford and associates of philadelphia and duluth present work is centered on the ohio and sidney claims tunnels that were driven in on the ledge in 1860 are being re timbered and opened up at that early date the ore was removed sacked hauled to crescent city and shipped across the water to scotland to the nearest smelter there is a six foot ledge carrying ex fine values in copper with a fair showing in gold and silver more rich strikes are reported from the tellurium mines of canyon creek and as an evidence of the discovery a big chunk or of quartz thickly shot with free gold and the rare white metal tellurium has been brought into the pass by B C a colorado miner who with associates are developing a rich claim in the canyon creek district they are in thirty feet on their ledge and find it growing better with depth DENNIS H STOVALL |