Show GOLD BRICKS FROM OREGON MINES special correspondence I 1 medford ore april 24 some excellent Ere returns turns have been received during the past two weeks from mines about here aside from the regular monthly dividend of the opp mine the sturgis sterling corporal G mountain lion and several others have all given good returns A brick containing melted from gold taken from the sluice boxes of the sturgis hydraulic mine of forest creek after a five days run was exchanged a few days ago at the bank of medford the gold was taken only from the sluices and Is is not a complete cleanup clean up of all the metal washed down as a great share of it is caught in the race or hangs to the bedrock the sturgis lias has made remarkable progress since it was i purchased and equipped last year by L A Ss vance and associates of los angeles work f has been done under the management of W ze E olmstead an experienced placer miner mr olmstead states that though the season has been slack of rain the sturgis has not s suffered materially and the battery has been t in almost continued operation the equip ment is modern and complete and the derrick rick and powerful battery solves the problem lein of working the heavy gravelled travelled though frich rich bars of forest creek successfully the sturgis is directly on forest creek six miles from medford three jars of nuggets and dust were passed over the banking counter a few days ago by manager of the placers on pleasant creek there were several big nuggets ranging in size from 40 to 50 that mr held out and will make a part of the jackson county mining display at the lewis and dark clark fair though the winter was slack of rain mr Wick states his property had as good a run as usual by reason of the excellent water right from pleasant creek A test run of several tons of ore from the corporal G mine of kanes creek gave returns of a ton free and 10 a ton sulphur ets the mine is being given an excellent development under the management of J A mckay A test run of fifty tons of average ore from the mountain lion mine of the applegate gave returns of 1000 while it was a test the run was not made on picked rock but on average quartz removed from the working since the mine was given up by colonel crawford and associates it has ha been operated to good advantage and with excellent success by the owners bailey bros and jewell harmon the equipment consists of a new five stamp mill and complete reduction plant near the mountain lion on the applegate is the michigan mine under development and equipment by the michigan min ing and milling company with W T perry as general manager As has been stated before i for e by your correspondent the michigan is making an excellent showing and the liberal amount of money being expended by the michigan company together with the great amount of intelligent work being done will soon result in this property being one of the best developed and best equipped in the southern 0 oregon regon district the dritt drift from the deeper level and from the main working shaft has uncovered the ledge and presented an ore body far bigger and richer than the management had expected to find two distinct veins are uncovered each carrying high v values alues largely free milling the new mill house is finished and much of the machinery has been placed the ore bins are heaped with ore and several hundred tons are on the dump when the reduction plant begins work in the near future it will have plenty of ore to keep it busy continually from the beginning another very rich strike has been made at the oregon belle mine of forest creek nine miles from medford the strike is the uncovering of the permanent threefoot three foot mother lode of the property for which the management have been searching for several months past it presents a solid breast of 50 ore from wall to wall several assays essays and tests have been made on the rock and on all the ore shows up strongly with values at the rate of from 40 to a ton all but four per cent of which are free the concentrates carry a ton the rich find was made at a depth of feet and at the end of the foot drift from the main adit tunnel on the lower level of the mine and about feet directly below the old workings of the property indications are that the pay shoot will have a length of at least 1000 teet feet the oregon belle is the property of the new york western mines company composed of new york capitalists it is operated under the management of foster gunnell the western representatives of the company since last fall the mine has been under development by machine drills and powerful machinery placed by the new york western the showing is such that the company has decided to place a ten stamp mill and reduction plant that the property may be operated on an extensive scale the mill house is already well under way A sawmill owned and operated by the company is cutting lumber for the mill house from the heavy timber of the oregon belle cli claims jims within the next few months the oregon belle will be fully equipped and in full operation DENNS dennes 11 STOVALL |