Show OREGON sumpter american thomas dearinger and ills his partner W T kendall accompanied by the batters lat brother L E came down from the buffalo mine last saturday the former went to spokane to spend the holidays while the latter went to their home in boise they expect to return here today and will resume activities at the mine keeping extremely busy until their lease expires in march prairie city miner paul tote bobbed up serenely several days ago with a nugget weighing 12 which which he found on his hils placer ground on upper dixie creek paul talks very little about his mining operations but grows somewhat confidential and exhibits some of the y yellow ellow metal metal from ills his quartzburg Quartz burg property how much he has or how much he has found no one knows only one thing is known about his mining and that is he alway has dust enough to not only supply his necessities but his miscal desires sumpter american W T woodford was down from the success companas comp anys group of claims on cracker creek last sunday and was particularly pleased to relate that they are now opening up a fine body of ore theas the essays assays says tests from which are proving the correctness of the conclusions based on the earner stages of development by reason of the fact that mr woodford and his crew got to work so late in the season their present efforts are somewhat slower than they would have been had they had a summer season in which to get ready grants pass mining journal A M keating formerly of grants pass but now of kalaka alaska returned sunday to boyr city for a short visit with friends mr keating tells us that he and mr W H Hamp hampton tolf are now working for the alaska pacific and coast railroad making surveys the road will go from kalaka alaska to the coal fields thence up copper river to yukon the road willi be built by pittsburg capitalists they are now busy constructing the right of way mr keating also informs us that mr and mrs hampton are also in oregon and washington but that they do not expect to have the time to get down to southern oregon |