Show OREGON sumpter american L C stevenson who owns the spero group near old robinsonville came in early during the week with a large sized goldbrick gold brick worth about 2000 as the of his run at the virginia mill he returned there yesterday accompanied by a gentleman who is to examine the property granite gem mike blake and chas barrett have a contract for doing development work at the grand union group work was started wednesday mr barrett employing dunk mcdonell in his place the grand union group is situated on may queen gulch adjoining both the red boy and may queen mines and should develop into a valuable mine gold hill news geo L haff is having sacks of ore hauled from the mears haff mine on sardine creek to gold hill preparatory to shipping it to smelter at tacoma the property from which this ore comes belongs to mr H G harms of chicago the shipment is made more as a test of the assays essays than for the values that would be derived from the ore granite gem jas A drake of corning new york is expected to arrive in granite the first of next week he will be here several days looking after mining interests near here mr drake is one of the principal stockholders in the steuben placer mining company they are operating the old thornburg placers on the north fork and are doing the most extensive placer mining in eastern oregon they are still piping at the mine and will probably continue to for several weeks granite gem grant thornburg manager of the morris mine for the iowa oregon company received instructions thursday from the eastern officials of the company to put a development force on the property at once and that operations will be carried on through the winter with a full crew it has been expected for some weeks that this company whose property has been idle the past year or more would get started in development work this winter now that it has been decided to do so next spring will probably see more of high grade ore opened up for which this property is noted sumpter american the morris mine in the greenhorns greenhorne Green horns owned by iowa people for whom grant thornburg 3 is manager is to be worked all winter abc acc according 0 arding to in instruct eions which lie he has received from them the rhe preliminary work will require some time in clearing and re timbering the old workings when double shifts will get busy driving the crosscut cross cut tunnels now in teet feet a further distance of from to feet to tap the rich surface vein this property was once a big silver producer while carrying both gold and copper of consequence mr air thornburg is confident of results before the spring season grants pass mining alining journal J W opp who is operating the braden mine one and one half miles south of gold hill reports very good success with his new mill erected this past summer he is now employing a force of some sixteen men and running his mill but one shift owing to scarcity of water this is a new up to date ten stamp mill run by electric power he is using johnson concentrators to each battery of stamps with very good success this force of men will be increased as fast as good miners can be procured owing to the increased activity in mining in southern oregon it is very difficult to secure good miners grants pass mining journal the yellow aster of the randsburg brandsburg Rands burg district with C A burnham general manager still stands well in the lead of the gold producing propositions in california and its payroll numbers men the greatest depth below the surface at which ore is minded is 1200 feet and in order to follow through all the levels drifts and dinzes one would have to travel about 15 miles mining in the yellow aster is virtually a quarrying scheme over 1700 tons of ore being taken out and milled during each month all of it being perfectly free milling the general formation of the handsbur brandsburg Rands bur burg district is composed of diorite and porphyry and the ledges proper all sorts of widths granite gem the first of the month the crane flat dredge was shut down for the winter the past seasons run for the dredge was both successfully success full and profitable to the owners considering that the dredge is a small one and that some of the ground is quite heavy to handle a large amount was washed cleanups were made every week while machine was in operation running as high as 1200 during the week while the operating expenses were about per week the crane flat dredge is owned and operated by the western mining and development company comprised of spokane people mr F P Dur burbidge bidge is general manager of the company the sue success cess of this dredge is attracting the attention tent of mining men and the time is probably not far d distant when there will be many more such machines working in eastern oregon sumpter american dr walter techow manager of the mountain view mine was here re on monday and stated that he was pre paring to increase the extent of the underground work at that property immediately this has been made possible by an arrangement with manager melzer of the north pole tor for the milling of the ore the roads between the mines of the former and the mill of the latter have been put in good condition for winter traffic the fire which consumed the mountain view mill several weeks ago only put a slight crimp in the calculations of president cake and his associates they are now planning for a much larger plant than they had before and it will be on the ground and ready for installation early next summer that the mountain view has been making a remarkable fine showing during the past summer is evidenced in a variety of ways but not through any statements made by the members of the close corporation controlling it |