Show OREGON glendale GIen dale news the greenback mine is grinding away night and day and continues netting its owners a little sum of every month glendale GIen dale news wm win H brevoort owner and R N bishop manager of the greenback mine with mr bracken their assayer were in our city last week stooping at the clarke mr bishop is the new manager of the mine fifie instead of 0 W thompson who has retired from the management sumpter american this week the north pole generally accredited as the rich est and largest mine of the district began shipping to the smelter which is another confirmation of the confidence enjoyed by the management through its clean business methods and knowledge of smelting smelling sm elting operations the receipts this week were very fine high grade ore and concentrates coming I 1 1 1119 in every day by team and rail among the freight shipments two cars from the bullof bull of the woods and alid a car each from the highland and snow creek were very high grade while the imperial continued its shipments of high grade rock from its new ore shoots with its other shipments of ore and concentrates john day news A number of business ill en in john day have again revived the subject of organizing a company for the adose of driving a big prospect tunnel through canyon mountain figures of en have been consulted and itis it is be lieveld that the tunnel could be driven for 6 per foot some of the most substantial business men in the town have signified a willingness illing to enter into a stock company for the purpose of cutting the formation provided satisfactory options on all property now held there can be secured As has been remarked there is probably no other country in the fhe world where such vast deposits of placer gold would not have led to a search that would have revealed its source theres millions in it myrtle creek mail mr jas hall has opened his ledge of sulphide ore on the west side of his property which is apparently as rich as that on the continental side where two carloads netted the owners over from the selby smelting smelling Sm elting and lead company this valuable strike go goes es to further the contention of prospector and owners of property on this great fissure of mineral that it is a high grade ore from the little chieftain west to the yellow jewels mines a distance of three miles without a break with the ten cars of ore that have been shipped from here and the banks of beautiful rich ore now being piled up at the continental mines could not help convincing the most skeptic mind as to the greatness of wealth in gold and silver contained in one township along this creek grants pass mining journal R G virtue of leland and the owner of the ajax mine in that vicinity was in the city this week on a flying business trip mr virtue has just returned from an extended trip to canada and the east where he went to enlist capital in the development of the ajax he reports the placer mines as all running in the vicinity of leland sumpter miner high grade ore has been cut in a foot tunnel on the rialto mine near granite owned by 0 0 benson of portland J W tabor of granite and grant thornburg of sumpter A porphyry dyke faulted the vein but persistent driving eventually entered a fine body of free milling ore sumpter mine guy E pierson is in town today showing the bannings pann ings from a handful of dirt taken from the treasure box a claim in the bear gulch guch district in which he owns a controlling interest there are forty or fifty coarse colors the sample was taken from a depth of only eight feet the ledge is twelve feet wide which pans all the way across but four feet of it runs very high all of it however would pay to mill the f four our feet can be shipped to the smelter at a handsome profit |