Show A FINE POCKET OF GOLD SPECIAL correspondence grant pass ore jan 8 the third rich strike for the past month was made a few days ago in the gold hill district rhoten brothers two southern oregon prospectors who have followed the business of pocket hunting in this district for several years and have grown rich by it uncovered the latest and biggest 60 pocket on gold hill the strike has already yielded over though the two men have been at work on it but two weeks much of the ore matter of the vein was so rich that it would not break up because oi of the great amount of pure gold it contained one piece dul dug from the treasure and the prettiest specimen uncovered is two inches wide a half inch thick and about six inches long this piece is almost pure gold having but a few bits of quartz attached the pocket hunters have been offered for the one piece niece but refused the offer as they wish to preserve it during the latter part of november two strikes striker similar to that of rhoten brothers were made in the gold hill district one yielding and the other about A number of prospectors and miners have left southern oregon during the past month and hied for the north and south slopes of the just across the lins in northern california where a number of fabulous finds have been made the richest of these are reported from china gulch and french gulch and other districts of siskiyou you county one of the most remarkable of these finds was made a few days ag aga in the highland mine of china gulch while driving his drill into the face of the ledge on a drift a drillman found himself unable to make depth and withdrew the steel to ascertain the trouble the point was metal covered and an examination of the drillings proved the powdered stuff to be almost pure gold dust prom from the drillings of the one hole hola about 30 was panned the shot set into the face of the drift blew off 1000 worth of gold among the lot being several very pretty specimens ahila this strike is one of the richest that has been made on the highland the whole property is showing up splendidly and is destined to become one of the best of producers the waldo smelting smelling Sm elting mining company which has heavy interests in the copper mines and smelter of the waldo district southern oregon is now centering its operations in the development and equipment of the monumental mines as operations cannot be followed at waldo during the winter the monumental is located on shelly creek del norte county cal but is reached from the oregon side ot of the mountains by Y way oi of the stage road from grants pass A great amount of machinery has been taken out to the mine recently this was brought down by steamer from san francisco to crescent city and hauled by wagon over the mountains to the property col T W M draper of san francisco has charge of the monumental for the waldo smelting smelling Sm elting mining company A large force is emp employed loydd both in the mine and on the sur surface fabe A large mill millhouse houe is being built and cyanide tanks tank erected the mill is of the roller type and in conjunction with the cyanide plant will offer the proper method for the treal treatment ment of the character of ore supplied by the wide ledge of the monumental this past week the condor water power company completed its ele electric etric power line into granite hill mining camp and as soon as the transformers and other electric machinery is installed the granite hill will change from steam to electric power the twenty stamps of the granite hill are operated day and night and the or ore reserve is being daily increased when the new power is placed the mine capacity will be increased from seven to 20 drill by I 1 the addition of another compressor both compre compressors sors the hoist and mill will be operated by electricity the mine is now opened on the fifth level and the ledge exhibits a better grade and character of quartz on this level than was found nearer the surface manager henry booth of the golden standard mine of creek district has placed a crew developing the property and getting the mine in shape to receive the vast amount of equipment that is soon to be placed the golden standard was recently taken over by metzger haviland of ohio for the property having e been held under bond by these leopla since july the new owners have agreed to place worth of machinery on the golden standard this winter and next spring in the meantime the property will be well developed ve loped the golden standard is a base copper and gold proposition and its ore is smelting smelling sm elting to begin with the plant will have a capacity of tons but it will be enlarged as the showing of the mine mina warrants A better wagon road is being built from the mine to merlin the nearest railway point and the ore will be shipped to tacoma till the smelter is built on the property |