Show A TON herald baker ci city ty oregon authentic information comes to the evening 0 herald of the discovery last week I 1 of a fabulously rich pocket of or ore e in the bonanza mine four cars of ore were holsted hoisted from the shaft and yielded on the plates of one stamp battery the herald is not at liberty to divulge the source of its information but the authority cannot be impugned thirty stamps are dropping steadily at the bonanza last week an upraise franr the 1200 to the 1100 foot level was com feted and sloping began in a 12 foot body of milling ore A streak was marvelously rich and four cars or a total of about five tons yielding amal amalgam gani worth pan assays essays of some of the ore not net included in this assortment showed a value of 15 cents per pound the extent of the rich pocket is not known as a sorted record was kept only of four cars the bonanza is perhaps the biggest mine in the western states of america it has made one or two millionaires it was sold by the geiser family about seven years agoto pittsburg stockholders in the standard oil company for half a million dollars for two years succeeding the transfer forty stamps were kept busy night and day and the average monthly output of the property was close to in gold bullion A dozen or so years ago the bonanza mine went begging at the geiser family took the pr property and equipped it with a stamp mill its operation for a long period was not profitable at a time when the geysers were head over heels in debt a shoot of ore was uncovered from which five stamps working thirty days pounded out the discovery of this ore body resulted in the sale of the mine to the standard oil company for the price above given F P hayes of pittsburg held control of the mine and under his management tremendous dividends were paid development work was not kept up however and in a short time the mill was forced to shut down pending the opening of new ore bodies it was while development along this lined line was in progress that hayes disposed of his controlling interest to a rival faction for a sum in cash said to have been a million dollars W H thatcher the present general manager was plated placed in charge of the ml mine ne A deep sinking plant equal to any in the west was installed the forty stamp mill was overhauled and a shaft was star started teI to tap the vein system at a depth of I 1 to 2500 feet at the foot level a crosscut from the shaft opened up a fine body of high grade ore and the mine was assured of a brilliant future and now the 1200 has proven its richness with a pocket of remark able richess with ore of su such ch richness sw at such depth ned in the bonanza mine a as s has been attal attained the stability of eastern oregon as a gold mi mining ning cou country is proven beyond a doubt |