Show OREGON salmon recorder W E taylor was wa in town monday en route to his home at pine creek he will take charge of the schumacher olsen mill under construction at kirtley creek as soon as it is completed mr taylor is a mill man of many years experience peri ence with the ores of his county having operated mills in nearly every district in the county sumpter american J W larkin managing owner of the rich cougar arrived sunday accompanied by W F edwards and J H dewar prominent mining men of mullen idaho and after a few days visit at the mine left friday for spokane beyond confirming the visitors made a cursory inspection mr larkin dec decline linel to make any statement grants pass mining journal charles L tutt president of the takilma smelling smelting Sm eltin elting company returned from takilma thursday after a weeks sojourn at the property mr tutt is greatly delighted with the latest strike made on the queen of bronze having opened up a very rich boly body of copper ore that runs as high as CO 60 per cent no ore like it has ever been found in that ds brict it has every appearance of of permanency and should it prove such there is no question but that a big industry will be started three grants pass courier dr W E williams secretary of the rogue river mining smelting smelling Sm elting refining company returned monday from the east where he had been for the past six weeks on business for his company dr williams has heretofore resided at wilmington ohio but now becomes a resident of grants arants pass and he brought with him hi his 9 wife and the their ir children As to the plans of the smelter company dr williams has no public statement to make though he states that the aff affairs airs of the company are in a very S satisfactory atis factory condition and that the erection of the smelter at savage rapids is now an assured fact and within the near future hon 0 E kirkpatrick came out from the gold flint camp near leesburg friday on business connected with his mining interests te rests mr kirkpatrick is one of the most optimistic mining operators of our county and his faith in lemkis mines is than ever he says no other spot on earth offers the same inducements idu cements for legitimate mining investment he says the representing work on the various properties in that vicinity has disclosed in several instances rich deposits he informed us that manager burton of the gold dust is expected here this week to take charge of the installation of the cyanide plant of the gold dust mill the machinery for which is now on the ground mr kirkpatrick returned to h his s home saturday morning glendale news another important business transaction has just taken place S R miller of this city having sold his placer mine the shively to mr drury a mining man of seattle the consideration was spot cash but the amount has not been learned definitely the new owner will n stall necessary machinery at once and nearly a dozen men will be employed in the immediate future under mr millers supervision rumor is current that eastern parties are already negotiating with the new owner with a view to purchasing the property the shively mine which is located near tha head of cow creek but on the umpqua side is regarded as a splendid investment and no doubt will be a greit great gre it producer when the necessary machinery hive have been bean installed baker city inland miner we take sixteen inches of ore worth 1 a pound these are the words of manager T S van vleet in telling of the strike made last week in the gold bug on rabbit creek near granite he has samples that show free gold in sufficient quantities to back his statement to say that there is joy in the gold bug company is putting it mildly the strike was made in the long crosscut and is a little over GOO feet from the portal of the tunnel it came as a surprise as they did not look lor for any more veins until the gold bug ledge was reached which is yet seme acme distance from the face of the tunnel it is therefore a blind lead unless the dip of the gold bug ledge changes greatly with depth from what the surface work on the vein indicates the tunnel has a depth of feet where the new ledge was cut sumpter american toner and walling are driving ahead with the crosscut on the black prince the tunnel is now in feet with twenty feet yet to go to reach the big dyke for which it was started this group of claims lying on the west slope of dixie butte has an immense mineral dyke running through the length of four claims or feet the dyke is of unproven width having been uncovered on the surface a distance of eighty feet and neither wall exposed A shaft has been sunk twenty eight feet from which very good values were taken the ore running three per cent cobalt five per cent nickle and 5 gold A blind ledge was cut in the crosscut tunnel fifty feet from the portal thirty feet wide with an average value of 5 in gold per ton it is the intention to drive the crosscut straight ahead until both walls of the big vein are exposed and then determine future operations preparations are being made for continuous work during the winter |