Show ACTIVITY IN SOUTHERN OREGON special correspondence grants pass ore june 20 southern oregon is now in the midst of its annual placer harvest only a few of the larger mines have water for the giants the largest 1 nugget picked up in the placer mines of southern oregon and northern california this season was that found a few days ago at the poverty point mines on klamath river near the state line the piece weighed thirty ounces and is valued at the new dredger of champlin co on foots creek is doing excellent work it is practically the first successful dredger for southern oregon all other machines having failed to cope with the many embar rass ments that dredging presents here the dredger is similar to the two operated by the same people near bannock mont A company of california men who are interested te in dredgers operated near oroville are testing an area of ground on althouse southern oregon for the purpose 0 of ascertaining its value tor for dredging if the ground proves all right these men will place a machine on althouse creek this next season prank frank ray a new york capitalist and millionaire and brother of dr C R ray manager of bf the condor water po power acm company pany is here from the ea east st andis visit ing his brother and the enterprise of the condor company at gold bay the company is now negotiating with all surrounding towns and mines in the matter of sup sun lying power the condor water power company is overhauling its braden mine near gold hill and will install more extensive equipment the mine has a ten stamp mill DIM which has been operated fo for T several years wires have been strung from the power house of the company on rogue river to the mill and power will be supplied by electricity in the future the first consignment of machinery for fo the monumental mines on shelley creek has arrived at the properties and is being placed by the waldo mining smelting smelling Sm elting company A crew of from fourteen to twenty men has been employed at the monumental for or over a year past and the property is well opened up from forty to fifty men will be employed continually in the future the ledge of the monumental is a big one carrying its values principally in gold and copper the rand gold mining company of washington has put a number of men at work developing the yank group of mines recently purchased of W T cope the yank group is located on rogue river near galice it has 1000 feet of tunnels and drifts run and many tons of ore on the dump the ledge being located directly on the famous yank lodge is from 0 o feet wide the ore is smelt ing the vagues in 14 copper ranging from 8 to 24 per cent mr J F reddy of spokane has been here for leeral days looking after the interests of himself and associates in the blue ledge mine of the upper applegate district it is given out that the eastern parties who were negotiating for the purchase of the blue ledge for a consideration of will take possession 4 in the near future the comstock gold mining milling company which has extensive properties in southern oregon is preparing to do considerable development and operating work this fall and winter the company has well developed quartz mines at mount baldy near grants pass and also a number of rich telluride claims in the new tellurium districts on canyon creek J monroe layman manager of the com company has arrived from the east and will superintend operations mr layman says they are highly pleased with results obtained in ill the development of their southern oregon mines they have had men at work ca continually tin tally on their tellurium claims of can yon creek since the first discovery of the ice ledges and a splendid vein is being opened up the showing made by many of w the newly discovered claims on canyon creek cree compares very favorably with some of afe tal of best of the famous tellurium districts i coronado Cor orado |