| Show OREGON granite gem elmer thornburg has put another giant in commission on his north fork placers this will give him three streams two to be used on the gravel bank and one on the elevator the third giant is to be used 0 o as 0 to o avoid moving the elevator and will only be turned on when the others are not in use I 1 jacksonville sentinel the sentinel has received a sample of copper from P J sullivan who is opening up a ledge on the west side of cook green creek a miles southwest of the blue ledge mine the sample is of mica chist the formation of the ledge and it is brilliant brilli arit with flecks of purple and blue peacock copper mr sullivan is driving a tunnel and though in but twelve feet the ledge is showing up quite rich in copper and he has every expectation that it will prove to be a rich copper deposit sumpter american construction work is being pressed on the alpine 20 stamp mill cable cove district superintendent addoms while down here during the week said he had a large force of carpenters and fillmen busy on the ground under the direction of millwright steadman As the i machinery for this plant was delivered at the mine last fall and about all of the building materials required have been man on the ground no difficulty will be experienced in rushing the plant to completion sumpter miner rey rev J W hughee of baker city managing owner of the equity in the quartzburg Quartz burg district accompanied by his wife and daughter came up this morn ing to look after the sampling of a car load of equity ore which recently came to the smelter this ore is very rich and will run from to to the ton rev hughes has another consignment odthe of the s same alne i high grade stuff which will be sent in very soon the five stamp mill on the property is being run steadily and full time is being made opening up the mine sumpter miner J M doyle superintendent of the gold coin in the cracker crackel creek district was here yesterday and stated that his company was making arrangements range ments to install a compressor plant at once the machinery has been ordered and will be here in a short time mr doyle expects to cut a ledge feet further in and he thinks he will tap all the ledges of the property in about feet the wheeling west virginia people who are interested in the property and who were here a short time ago are expected back in a couple of weeks baker city herald from the star gaz ing heights of the eagle range comes word of a rich strike A six foot ledge has been uncovered on pine creek near the union companion of the Cornue cornucopia opia group the ore according to reliable advices advises ad vices assays essays 1000 per ton in gold and silver carrying eighty ounces in gold and from six to ten ounces in silver the discovery was made by two prospectors gallagher and pierce 4 on what is probably the old nelson location made thirty years ago telephone advices advises to the evening herald from cornucopia state that the strike has started a stampede to the scene of the discovery which is ikover over the hill from the union companion and that before night all available vacant ground will have been located sumpter american operations at the columbia continue full blast the entire milling in 9 plant of twenty stamps concentrators and leaching devices being run at capacity the managing owner E W backus of minneapolis is a visitor in the camp this week being here to confer with manager F S baillie mr backus usually makes a trip to the mine each year and the trip at this time is presumed to be pursuant to this general custom there have been many rumors afloat during the week to the effect that the columbia would purchase the taber fraction property which adjoins the columbia on the north nothing is stated by either the owners of the fraction or the columbia in this respect and the rumor cannot be denied or affirmed |
