Show OREGON granite gem last week the long crosscut at the black jack broke into a six sik foot vein the depth of the crosscut where the ledge was cut is about feet the vein shows to be a good strong lead and the ore pans some free gold it has not been learned just what values the ledge carries sumpter american A W butler general manager of the mattoon mine mind near pocahontas ca is in the city attending sampling of shipments to the smelter he was here during the early part of the week accompanied by judge H S clark president of the company and other in interested terest dd parties who witnessed the testing of the ment A sumpter dispatch says N berkeley one of the owners of the old buffalo group in the granite district has made such a favorable report on the property y that the management has about decided to install a mill in the spring at one time this mine produced large quantities of silver and has paid its owners as high as 1000 per week from ore run through an during the coming winter it is the intention to continue the crosscut on the upper level until the ledge is reached granite gem this week the small hoist at the sheridan empire was moved about feet to an old shaft that was sunk about thirty years ago and the water has been pumped out from the old workings the object is to thoroughly explore the old and locate the shoots when the shaft will be sunk another feet and a station cut some very rich ore has been taken from the sheridan in years past and all that is needed to make the mine again become a producer is proper development this the new owners wheeler co seem to be doing it at the sheridan granite gem harry W castle is doing the annual assessment work on his sullivan claim the sullivan is located on the apex of spokane mountain adjoining the B blue lue bird the sullivan lead is a ver very strong rong one being fully thirty feet wide and carry ing good values in free gold this is the same ledge the long crosscut at blue bird is headed for this tunnel will catch the sullivan at a depth of about 1000 feet it has some or feet yet to go before reaching the vein but when this is done it is expected that blue bird stock will be going up in the air sumpter american A very tm good silver proposition is the polar star located on little salmon creek greenhorn section and being developed by doug weaver there are three claims in the group with an 18 inch vein running the length of two claims A number of open cuts have been made to expose the vein then a shaft was sunk 20 feet and the vein found to hold its width for that depth showing ten inches of ore running as high as ounces silver with some values in gold it is the intention to drop down the mountain now and run a foot crosscut which will give a depth of feet the property joints the intermountain inter mountain baker city inland miner alt alf sherrill who has been mining in the greenhorn district for almost two years has been in baker for a week past attending to some legal matters and receiving returns from the i boise assay office on what had teen been sent there from a mill run of royal white ore of eleven tons the net to him was which he received monday morning the ore had been hauled to the don juan mill and has demonstrated to him and his associates that in the royal white they have something more than a prospect the development work up to this time has created ore reserves which will run into the thousands of tons all of which they have every reason to believe will prove as good or better than that which they went to the trouble and expense of hauling to the don juan plant grants pass courier H G moulton of moulton rhodes returned sunday from mt reuben dist district brict where he and his partner have been doing extensive mineral surveying and also on whiskey creek one of their principal jobs was the surveying of the seven claims owned by the copper stain mining company mr moulton stated that there was much activity in mining work in the mt reuben district and the other districts below it on rogue river there are many prospectors at work and they are opening some fine showing claims the various mines on whiskey creek give employment to over men of this number 45 are employed at the gold bug and california mines voth b oth of which the owned by the same company and are under the of R W hafeley Ha riley filey on lower grave creek colonel S W blasdel has men at work installing an equipment for operating a big placer claim on flat over four miles of a large ditch and flume are being put in and a dam is being constructed across grave creek |