Show OREGON john day news the material necessary for continuing operations of the keystone driller has arrived and the boring machine is again delving ID down into the interior of the gold laden gravel revealing the secrets of the great storehouse to those who are entitled to know them baker city herald dark clark taber al geiser and augus mcqueen een who bought the goldbug mine in douglas county a few days ago have been rewarded by finding plenty of ore of a better grade than they first expected and will add a thirty stamp mill to the tn ten stamp mill already constructed on the property baker city mining men will show southern oregon miners a thing or two this year in the way of mining development granite gem C J allen alien of portland the managing owner of the monumental mine arrived in granite thursday evening evenin accompanied by his little son and at once went in to the mine while in granite he confirmed the report which was published in the columns of the gem last week that one half interest in the monumental had been sold to E J Hutchins hutchinson cn and S W of chattanooga tenn the present force employed has been bayed off while arrangements are being made for the corn com aen inen cement of sinking operations john day news the old humbolt channel that has turned such rich stores of gold and whose channel runs along the western bank of canyon creek has been followed and located on the hill below the last workings the pipe for operating the big hydraulics has been sluicing is under way and active washing of the banks will be going on with a few days of course no one knows wh what at the ground will yield at this point but mr dart one of the owners has in his possession some beautiful and valuable specimens obtained from the upper work one of these specimens is pure gold and weighs about 17 granite gem mr A burch went to sumpter wednesday returning in the evening he had with him the cleanup of a portion of the ground he has worked on crane flat this season the amount of the cleanup was not made public though it ft is understood to have been quite satisfactory where they are working at present is known to be some very rich ground the elevator machino machine with which mr burch has been experimenting peri has proven to be quite satisfactory and he is satisfied that with a heavier machine he can work the ground nearly as cheaply as with a dredge and such a machine can be put in for about while a dredger will cost sumpter american when the foreman in charge of work at the victor reported to the geiser hendryx office yesterday the victor main crosscut cross cut was feet long vein no 3 is very close to the face of this work but the exact distance that will have to be driven to reach it cah can not be estimated accurately owing to the dip of the vein manager hendryx said he expected that the adit would open the fissure within about ten days although it might be a less period vein no 4 the last cropping fissure encountered was twenty five feet wide and carried the typical mother lode sulphide on the surface no 3 is about twelve feet wide with a splendid showing and it is believed by the management that when it is opened in the tunnel the showing of ore will be of the best sumpter american in the experimental run made by A burch and F W burbridge this season at crane flat on the new elevator plant the management says satisfaction has been given with the demonstration of success for the new type As explained explain eil before the plant cons consists ts of a giant for breaking down the bank and two belt conveyor elevators for lifting the gravel to such heights as will permit aulice washing and disposing of the waste while in the city this week mr burch said that their work had been experimental the management having used parts of mill machinery and that results warranting a larger plant were obtained the time for erecting the now new plant is not indicated but will ably be next season or r possibly this fall so as to get the benefit of the fall deaso seasons s water next year mr burch did not furnish figures as to the amount of gravel moved or the cost per yard of doing the work but his satisfaction with general results proves that the cost has been quite low |