Show 1 smelter for the takilma company correspondence ts po R 1 grants pass ore march 24 the summer now approaching will be a notable and a busy season for the quartz mines of southern oregon it will be a prosperous summer for fc r the mining industry as a whole in this section of the webfoot state one feature that will add much to the prosperity will wili be the unusually large output of placer gold every placer mine large and small in this mineral zone has had water in plenty and all have made good their opportunity mining men conservatively estimate that the output of virgin gold dold from southern oregon this season will be at least four times as large as for any past season since the hydraulic giant was introduced here A bigger Z and better feature however for this district will be the amount of new machinery and equipment that will be added to the quartz mines this will mean much for the future futi ire and speaks volumes for the outlook 0 of the mining business in this section it is now an assured fact that the copper mines of the waldo district will have a smelter albert goodeill Go odeil an experienced mining and smelter man of denver has arrived here to erect and superintend the operation of a ton plant at the waldo mines the smelter will be installed by the takilma smelting smelling Sm elting company and will ost cost c 1 when completed about or 60 while a number of the people interested in the takilma smelting smelling Sm elting company are likewise interested in the waldo smelting smelling Sm elting mining company and the united states reduction refining works of colorado it is an entirely separate and distinct corporation but like the others is incorporated under the aws of colorado and has several prominent colorado men at its head among them being charles L tutt manager of the united states reduction refining company chich has six smelters shelters sm elters in operation in colorado J OB gunn formerly of the union iron works san francisco and col T W M draper of san francisco formerly manager of the waldo smelting smelling Sm elting mining company a are re also interested in the takilma smelting smelling Sm elting company according to contract made with H C holthoff the builder the smelter smeller will be placed aboard the cars at cudahy wisconsin by may and the company intend to have it in operation ion by july the smelter will oe of the standard blast furnace and water jacketed type and will be built at takilma Ta kilma the camp of the waldo copper m mines ines and just below the waldo and queen of bronze mines the property of the waldo smelting smelling Sm elting mining company aside from treating the ores 0 res from these mines the smelter will also al so do a general custom business and in this regard will be of great ser 1 acie to the many undeveloped properties of that district with the building of this smelter at waldo it is qu quite ite evident the california oregon coast rial road surveyed from eureka cal to grants pass will also be constructed this summer on account of the good showing made with development the oro fino mining company which is developing the oro fino mine of jump off joe district has decided to install a cyanide plant this summer and order for the plant has already been placed the oro fino is owned principally by J H fisk and a few other portland men S chase having charge of the development work the oro fino is located near the baby hammersley gopher and I 1 klondike ion mines when mr chase ccok hold of it a little over one year ago it was practically an abandoned mine now it presents one one of the richest and largest ore bodies of any southern oregon properties this having been located and blocked out by persistent and intelligent work As has been previously mentioned in thet the mining review the almeda mining company is planning to install a ton smelter at it its almeda mine of galice district and the copper eagle mining company whose property the copper hagie eagle is located in ther the same district announces that it will install a fifty ton smelting smelling sm elting and matting plant this summer the american gold fields company will add ten more stamps to its new granite hill mill making a battery of 20 then there will be a five stamp mill and reduction plant for the millionaire mine of gold hill district and 10 additional stamps for the braden mine of the condor water power company gold hill district colonel C E woodrow of san francisco who was here for several days in the interests of new york parties looking over the mines with a view to invests investing aig bonded the ada mine of harth ryan this city for a consideration of the ada is located on foots creek and is developed by tunnel and shaft to a depth of feet colonel woodrow will put a crew to work in EL a few days completing a long tunnel that was begun on a lower level and if the showing justifies it a mill will be placed this summer A mill test of the ada quartz recently made gave average returns of 30 a ton the heavy rains and washed out roads and bridges have cut off several of the outlying districts and camps from supplies the only means of reaching them being by pack animals and trail Ma manager nalger cleaned up over two pounds of virgin metal from one or two of his sluice boxes in the lone star placers of pleasant creek a few days ago as a partial cleanup clean up for the season manager A S cousin secured 2500 from one box at the middle diggings of ther the galice consolidated placers galice creek a few days ago DE ar STOVALL |