Show OREGON myrtle creek mail ben southwell has made a new discovery near headquarters on north myrtle and he and B M armitage and mike dick went out the first of the week to sink a shaft on the property and do some prospecting in the vicinity of white rock granite gem lorenzo durkee of 0 sumpter is at the magnolia where he is overhauling the machinery in the ten stamp mill preparatory to running on ore from the snow bird mr durkee is a mill man of many years experience who will be able to handle the mill and ore to the satisfaction is of the new owner of the snow bird myrtle creek mail norman estee the colorado mine promoter is doing some substantial development L work on the ranch of mr J S wiley near the hall mine he has uncovered a ledge twenty five feet in width and has sunk a shaft seventy five feet in depth from which he is running a crosscut to strike the big ledge at a greater depth sumpter american W L davidhizer the well known mining man returned thursday morning from an extended trip to portland and the dalles and left in the afternoon for chicago on an important mining deal before returning to sumpter he will visit his relatives and friends at wakarusa Wa karusa ind and may decide to spend christmas with his folks grants pass mining journal residents of the mohawk valley in the vicinity of marcola about 20 miles northeast ot of eugene are considerably excited over the discovery of gold bearing quartz in the hills in that locality when pounded with a hammer gold in large quantities can be seen in the quartz experienced mining men say that the ore is rich and if the ledge is found to be extensive there will be a big rush of people there to secure claims no assays essays have yet been made but the ore taken out is apparently rich with the yei low metal grants pass courier A C hoofer superintendent perin of the mt pitt mine on jump off joe was in grants pass tuesday mr hoofer stated that he is having development work pushed at the mt pitt and the showing is exceedingly encouraging the ore body has proven to be large and the values are steadily increasing he is now getting out a large quantity of ore which he is having hauled to the lucky queen mill where he will have it treated so as to have a mill test As the lucky queen is operated by water power it will not be started up until the rains come glendale news A shipment of three and one half tons of copper ore was made a few days ago by john bailey and brady burnett who with others are owners of a very promising copper mine the ore was shipped to the tacoma smelting smelling Sm elting company and is estimated to average from thirty five to forty per cent pure copper the experiment is watched with deep interest and it is probable that some of the other extensive deposits of copper in the neighborhood of 01 glendale will henceforth receive a more liberal attention froni from mining men the location of the deposit from which the above mentioned ore comes is on the west side of green mountain in the vicinity of Star vout sumpter american excellent progress is reported from the golden chariot this week both underground and surface in the former the work is centered in the east drift which continues to show up a she pile body of milling ore with the high grade shipping stuff holding good on tov top much headway has been made in the excavating for the mill building and about 11 half alf of the plant is at the mine it is expected the entire plant will be delivered by the end of the coming week and the mill begin operation by the middle of november manager is expected home monday when the result of the conference with the directors will undoubtedly be given the press grants pass courier louis P larsen manager and a leading stockholder in the spokane company that lately purchased the grouse mountain mine in the mt baldy district went to portland saturday to pur chase a compressor electric motor light plant and drills for his mine tuesday mr larsen wired for A L smith superintendent of their mine to come to portland and that evening mr smith left to join mr larsen to assist in selecting the machinery it is mr lamsens Lar sens plan to have the compressor and other machinery installed within thirty days when a large crew of men will be put to work to push the rapid development of the mine and to get it in shape for shipping ore as soon as the smelter at savage rapids is ready to blow in baker city inland miner dr C M pearce of sumpter was in baker city on business last monday and made the statement that M H allen alien popularly known as ham had another rich strike in the prop erty which he located near the gold nugget group in the ibex district a few days after tom bessler and his party made their rich strike mr allen alien had found particularly rich values in the surface droppings crop pings and has continued exploitation work since getting returns which justified the effort a and nd expenditure involved according to the doctor the miners broke into a four foot breast which looks as if it had continuity and from which the assays essays give figures that are abnormal A foot and a half of snow was reported there sunday which makes both a wagon and bob haul necessary from sumpter this double handling of supplies has not deterred mr allen alien who the ground fo for r a is getting the material on winter campaign |