Show OREGON jacksonville sentinel tom dungey had one ton of ore from his claim on galls creek crushed brushed at Swin dons mill and received 1 T the fhe vein is but 6 inches wide but is very rich although most of the rich ore in that district is in narrow veins at the surface with alith depth they widen out grants pass mining journal superintendent L 13 wickersham accompanied by his assayer ralph graham were in the city this week tuesday from the granite hill and report development as proceeding very i t satisfactorily at the mine they are now taking out a white quartz ore heavily impregnated with galena and sulphides sulp hides also quite freely shot with free gold assays essays have not as yet been made but it is thought that much of it will go as high as three hundred dollars to the ton jacksonville S sentinel e n t i n e 1 there was shipped from the opp mine this weel week a pound car of concentrates to in san francisco and a a smelting smelling sm elting company gold brick weighing ill ounces and worth over 1000 1600 the concentrates will run which makes the total cleanup clean up at the mill about 2800 which so bad when we take into consideration the fact that these shipments are made every few weeks the owners of the opp are not making much noise but are constantly sawing wood A baker city dispatch says another sensation was caused in m mining ning circles today when M L keizar arrived from slices gulch and exhibited quartz literally alive with gold some of the samples would run from to per ton mr keizar is manager of the cardinal gold mining company which owns ten claims at the head of slices gulch about sixten miles southwest of the city the ledge was broken into by a crosscut tunnel at a depth of between and feet on the oriental claim the strike was made saturday the vein is 20 feet in width on the surface i 1 A baker city dispatch says the entire granite creek district is much excited over the big strike just made in the monumental mine under the of P H edlessen the rich areis ore is a two foot shoot in the first level in the on the lower tunnel and carries ounces in silver and three to five ounces in gold or to the ton the ledge is 15 feet between the walls and outside of this rich two foot streak is all good milling ore the monumental is one of the oldest and best known properties in the granite camp C J allen alien is the general manager the mill is one of the first installed in eastern oregon thirty years ago jacksonville sentinel about twelve years ago D J S pearce who operates the pearce sons placer mine on Poor mans creek washed out in gold from a single pan he then informed the boys that when any of them beat that record he would present him with a bran new hat and this week his son won the hat by getting from a single singie pan the season has been a poor one for them yet they have succeeded in picking up over in coarse gold yet have not made a cleanup clean up mr pearce startled the editor by producing a 67 nugget that he picked up friday on their diggings which seem to produce a good many of these big fellows sumpter american belmont was the topic of talk again agaid this week and from last saturday when news came over from greenhorn that gilkey and kershaw were again agaba taking out gold of all kinds and sizes till thursday when mr gilkey came in with a good sized knapsack filled with the precious metal all kinds of wealth was being wrested from the treasure vault according to rumors in a straightforward conservative manner mr gilkey said we have probably cleaned up about in the last three days not that more there but we are handicapped by the flow of water besides we are anxious to reach the convergence of the parallel and main veins feeling certain at that point we will uncover one of the greatest ore bodies yet found in the blue mountain section |