Show OREGON sumpter miner A burch of burch burbridge spokane came in from the crane flat placers this morning and left on the afternoon train for spokane the company is setting up a dredge at the diggings and will be ready for extensive operations in a short time the roads out that way mr burch says have been in a terrible fix but are now rapidly drying up john day news the badger people are intending to begin shipping concentrates at an early date arrangements for the usual season activities have been in progress for some time and while no statement has been made by the superintendent as to the date when he will put the concentrate wagons on the road again people of susan ville v ille understand that it will be during the coming month glendale news the malting making of one of the biggest gold producers in this district is the mt reuben mine owned by F J heller son this week mr heller brought to town a chunk of ere cre weighing about 75 pounds that would run about in gold to the ton these gentlemen have about feet of tunnel work done and are developing the property very rapidly with a view to installing machinery yet this season jacksonville sentinel henry kubli was in jacksonville a short time last monday while on his way to the golden standard mine on galls creek of which he judge E B watson K K kubli and his mother mrs E J kubli are af the owners mr ra kubu is having the mine and quartz mill put in shape for work and he expects to be mining ore in a short time this mine has been a profitable investment to its owners and there is every likelihood that it will become one of the best paying mines of af that section glendale news angus mcqueen and dark clark taber the well known portland mining men accompanied by albert alber t geiser the most prominent mine owner in eastern oregon arrived here monday and next day proceeded out to the gold bug mine fifteen miles southwest of glendale on which property they recently took a bond and in which a fabulously rich strike was made this week of ore that will run thousands of dollars to the ton sumpter miner W S bally of the overland was in from the property today to confer with manager bain mr bally baily conveyed some very encouraging information he reported that the horse recently encountered on the drift following no 10 2 vein had been broken through disclosing a body of high grade sulphide ore carrying also some galena and yellow iron at one time it was decided to cut around the horse but later it was thought advisable to carry the drift straight on baker city herald although covered with earth which makes a hard country to prospect the prospectors in the whito swan virtue district think they have 1 located 0 the main belt of the district it appears to come from under the lava capping about a mile south of the virtue mine and exten extends dsa a little north of east through the fullerton hill the uncle dan hill the oro hi I 1 and just to the south of the white swan mine and going under the deposits on the flats beyond first and second creeks where it also turns to base ore baker city herald A very rich strike of ore has been made on the new york consolidated according to a letter received at the companas comp anys office in portland from C C who is superintendent of the property some is full of free gold ore showing pieces piece s as large as grains of wheat the ore carries value of over per ton by assay and is an iron quartz the strike was made on what is known as ledge no 5 and is close to the I 1 X L mine which is proving so rich in gold the shaft is only twenty feet deep yet it shows three feet of ore which makes the property doubly valuable as the deepest working is only ninety feet from the surface the ore of which carries an average of 40 per ton work is being rushed on the erection of the mill and mr says the plant will be in operation by june 1 the mine is controlled by portland people sumpter american one of the early spring improvements contemplated for the new york property adjoining the 1 I X L in the greenhorns greenhorne Green horns is erection of a tremain miu mill superintendent stated re Q bently that he hoped to begin this work not later than may 10 and believed he would have the plant ready for ore by the first of june A new hoisting plant was erected on the property last winter which will enable the management to proceed with development rapidly and at the same time handle all ore removed during progress of this work the mill is the steam stamp type used at the 1 I X L and the black hawk and does not require a large power plant to operate grants pass mining journal about twenty pounds of gold in glittering bars representing about one half of the annual cleanup clean up at the golden drift c companas comp ompa anys nys placer mine three miles east of the city was brought into town monday and disposed of at the counter of the grants pass banking trust company the aggregate value of the bullion was something like and in addition to the bars manager ament has a collection of nuggets of various sizes which he will retain in that form among the others is one beautiful specimen bigger than a t goose egg made up of pure gold with fragments of white granite attached As this bullion was all removed from the bed rock and a portion of the races it is estimated that the company will have something like when all the sluices and boxes have been cleaned out when it is considered that this wealth has been obtained in about thirty five working days from one giant the value of the golden drift ground may be calculated |