Show OREGON granite gem elmer thornburg has a crew at work making a new road to the ben harrison and morris mines it will take about three weeks to complete the road work when the morris will start shipping ore from their new strike to the sumpter smelter grants pass courier A E fry came up from mule creek district last week where he has been for several weeks working on a mine that he and jacob frye and E A ruth ruth are opening up on rogue river three miles below the mouth of mule creek they have their property sold to philadelphia parties and mr frye is spending the time here with his family until their return from the east which will be next week when he will accompany them to the mine and assist in installing the hydraulic plant that will be put in sumpter american the last thirty feet of the west drift on the forty five level of the black butte has opened up one of the finest bodies of ore yet found in the mine it is full seven feet wide of very high grade milling quality and with the ore from the east drift is feeding the mill full capacity the mine was visited the present week by the board of directors who report excellent progress being made and everything in fine shape after going carefully over the ground they decided to bring the waters from belshaw creek a distance of between four and five miles which will double the operating capacity of the rich placers grants pass mining journal another rich strike is reported from the grouse mountain country which L P larsen of spokane has made on the quartz property he bonded not long ago for from smith grant edger and hunter of this city this property has been worked by three shifts of men for f or the last month and development has been pushed night and day since that time with the result that at a depth of feet f beet on the new tunnel a twelve foot ledge was struck which car carries ries i very high values the property is located just east of mount baldy in a very rich district and about three miles from this city the ore is largely base and if found in as large quantities as is anticipated the mines in this district alone will insure the success of the new smelter at savage rapids glendale news A D mcqueen who is one of the owners of the gold bug mine has been in glendale during the past couple of weeks and while here took the leading part in a mining miming venture which may mean mead a great deal f for or this mining region we I 1 have reference to the bonding in his favor of the black diamond and morning star mines mines owned and operated by W H pruitt and S J pruitt of this city the amount to be paid cannot be accurately determined at this writing but we understand it is well into the thousands of dollars these mines mines are situated on creek about two miles from hampton camp and four and one half miles from reuben station and have been worked for a considerable length of time assays essays average 1960 of gold to the ton gold can be panned almost anywhere on the property mr mcqueen will in a few days leave for portland when he will make the necessary arrangements for opening up the property at a lively rate |