Show GRIST OF NEWSY NOTES FROM GRANTS PASS 1 correspondence grants pass ore april 22 A five stamp mill and plant is soon to be placed at the homestake Home stake mine on foots creek A crew of eight men is now at work at the homestake Home stake under the superintendence of J ir cunningham colonel H C woodrow of san francisco has been here for several days getting a crew together to begin the development of the ada mine on foots creek recently bonded by him for san francisco men from harth ryan I 1 samuel bowden of spokane has set a crew of men to work in the development of his copper claims on slate creek and will push thia work with all speed during the summer the big ledge is making a good showing with the development work thus far done F H osgood the seattle railroad and mining man has been here for several days past superintending super intending the work of clearing out and preparing the old hammersley mine of jump off joe district for business mr osgood has the hammersley cleared of water and is now timbering re such of the tunnels and drifts as need it and getting the mill and plant ready for work joseph kreis president of the national mining company has been here looking over the holdings odthe company in del norte county california the headquarters of this company are at tacoma the copper mines of the national are located in and about San germine del norte county and embrace some acres of mineral ground the properties are under development and are making a good showing the review representative is informed by frank roberts one of the interested parties that the allen alien mine on rogue river of the galice district has been purchased by duluth mining men headed by charles dautremont for a consideration of this is the biggest mining deal ever made in oregon the allen alien properties embrace acres of patented ground the mine is located on the famous big yank ledge and the values are base carried in copper and are smelting smelling sm elting the company taking the allen alien over is known as the oregon homestake Home stake mining and reduction company development work is to begin at once among the features planned by the new enterprise is the damming of rogue river for power purposes the building of a smelter and the construction of a wagon road across the mountains to leland making it but nine miles from the mine to the railroad instead of 14 as at present mr 3 F reddy of spokane was in grants pass a few days ago on his way to crescent city and while here stated that the famous blue ledge mine of the upper applegate district of which he is manager has again changed hands it has been purchased by eastern parties for a consideration of mr reddy gave out nothing more regarding the sale further than to say the purchasers of the blue ledge had made a thorough inspection of the property and were well satisfied with it development work is to begin at once this will new life and vigor into the blue ledge camp and district as there has been a sort of falling off in the excitement caused by that section a year ago when the blue ledge was under development by patsy clarke the new dredger of champlin co launched some time ago on foots creek is now in operation and is proving itself itsel well adapted to the task of dredging southern oregon channel the dredge has given little or no trouble from the start and the forty buckets now reach bedrock on their circuit a depth of over thirty feet nearly all of the dredging grounds owned by this company on foots creek prospects 25 cents a yard the channel is several hundred feet in width and from twenty to forty feet in depth the dredger is floated by backwater from a dam thrown across the lower end of the creek the machine is feet in length and similar to the two machines operated by champlin co near bannock montana the complete cyanide plant formerly in use at the parnell mine near kalama washington has been purchased for S chase owner and manager of the oro fino mine on jump off joe district near grants pass the plant will be placed aboard the cars at kalama at once and shipped south for installation at the oro fino it was originally a plant but was purchased by mr chases representative by auction and at a bargain the plant is of fifty tons capacity being a four tank standard and is equipped with sturdevant rock crusher and centrifugal rolls power will be supplied by steam the engines and boilers being a part of the plant the oro fino has been under development by mr chase for over a year past and during that time has made an excellent showing the ore body is large the values being mainly base and running from 5 to 10 a ton making it a good cyaniding cyan iding proposition DENNIS H STOVALL |