Show Har harvesting harvesta vesti n 9 placer gold I 1 grants pass ore may 20 the annual I 1 placer harvest is coming on in southern ore oregon gon and add will continue till late in the if summer during the past two weeks pos f sibly pounds of virgin gold have been brought into grants pass and exchanged I 1 over the banking counters and shipped di to the refinery As has been stated previously in the review this has been ia a very prosperous season for the surface miners of southern oregon by reason of the heavy rains and abundant snows while many of the properties have had partial cleanups clean ups the greater number will have water for operation till late in june or july I 1 manager MC ament brought in twenty pounds of gold from the dry diggings placers this week which is but one half the output of the placers of the golden drift company for the season the gold brought in is that washed off the bedrock or sw swept ept out of the races the sluices having not yet been cleaned the company operated but one giant and this one but for forty days A number of men are now at work completing the power dam of the golden drift company across rogue river by which water and pressure will be supplied three or four giants the whole year through some in nuggets and dust werd were brought in and deposited this week from the placer diggings of the galice consolidated mines company of galice manager A B D cousin stated that they will have water for their three giants for two months r yet he has just installed a tubular elevator at the mouth of galice by which a large area of rich ground occupying the low benches and bars and otherwise unavailable will be worked albert wheeler collector of customs at Sk aguay alaska was here this week visiting the placers of the galice Con consolidated consolita solida ted company in which he and several other alaska men are heavily interested mr wheeler went away highly elated and with a firm conviction in his heart that there are boother other places in the world outside of alaska where the virgin metal is found he stated that the development operations and outlook I 1 of galice district as well as all other 1 sections of southern oregon that he had j seen een compares very favorably with many I 1 of the best mines and districts of alaska 0 1 the main shaft of the greenback mine f of grave creek is now down 1100 feet and I 1 the bi big gledge ledge shows up as strong and wide f and rich at this depth as on the higher J Ie levels velS no mine in oregon has made as lapid pid a growth as has the greenback in e fall of 1898 it was but a hole in the und and not a very promising hole either but C W thompson a young and energetic mining man took hold of the greenback and in a short time the old was replaced by an orthodox stamp mill now forty stamps thunder day and night in the two mills there are over two miles of tunnels shafts and drifts ten machine drills are operated opera tedi and men are employed aside from the mills a ton cyanide plant is operated A F nelson has the eureka mine of soldier creek about ready to resume operations again after a closedown close down of some six or nine months during which time the mine has undergone a complete overhauling the property though a new one has demonstrated that it will be a permanent fixture among Or egons quartz gold producers it is equipped with an excellent plant the mill being provided with a ten stamp battery the old lucky queen mine of jump off joe district which was at the height of its prime ten or fifteen years ago is being reincarnated incarnated ed by a company of spokane mining men for a long time the lucky queen was idle following the pinching out of the surface values which were the original feeders for the proper tys prosperity now it is being opened on more progressive lines C D crane lids has charge of the development work which is proceeding by two long tunnels and by which the values of the deep levels will be reached already good paying ledges have been uncovered and many tons of fine rock have been piled on the dump some of which has been sacked and made ready for shipment another instance of an old time property coming to the front by enterprising and capable management is that of the southern oregon mining development companas comp anys success with the old placer mine on jump off joe formerly owned by henry weins the southern oregon company has recently paid two dividends from the output of its jump off joe placer mine D H STOVALL |