Show OREGON sumpter american G W sheff of the at anthony at alamo was in town during 0 r week he reports the work at the mine u jg gressing quite satisfactory what is s mown as the old no I 1 tunnel has been reopened the caved ground being caught up and timbered re the ledge in this tunnel had faulted but it has been recovered and is now showing up well with a pretty good grade of quartz sumpter american in the past week good values were encountered in the congress vein at the black jack the ore ord runs high in free gold values panning tests show many colors of coarse gold the congress vein is tapped approximately feet deep and finding so much free gold at that depth would seem a splendid indication that by raising very rich free ore will be encountered above the level grants pass mining journal W H ramsey the locator when he was in a few days ago showed us some fine rock that he is getting from two claims he located last june or july in the slate creek country he has two crews of men at work and says that assays essays run from 2 to 10 per cent copper 8 to 2120 in gold one and one half ounces silver and two and one half per cent galena the ledge shows immense width granite gem A B pierce who has charge of operations at the alamo mine was a granite visitor during the week regarding the operations at this well known property he stated that he has been drifting for some time on the vein in the lower tunnel and that in the past two weeks there has been considerable change in the vein the gangue filling is being cut out and replaced by quartz the quartz pans very well in free gold and is also very rich in sulphur ets A special from grants pass says A marvelous strike has been made on the old opp mine near near jacksonville one chunk of ore nearly half gold and containing 5 in yellow metal is on exhibition at the jackson county bank the big chunk was taken from the strike a few days ago and is attracting much attention the strike was made on the main ledge and while opening the ore body it is the third such strike made on the opp during the past twelve months gold hill news J E kirk of kirk and hill co who have a lease on the lucky bart mine on sardine creek was exhibiting a brick of gold in gold hill yesterday that weighed thirty ounces the result of milling fifteen tons of ore the value of the brick is about these gentlemen have made a number of runs with even better results than this and it easily shows the true value of the property they are developing ve loping the lucky bart group is owned by J H beeman ot of this city granite gem elmer thornburg sent a team out this morning to the ben harrison they will open the road as far as possible and tomorrow mr thornburg will accompany the team and spend several days at the mine aiding the men in transporting the supplies from the end of the road to the mine the last report from ben harrison was that the vein is widening in the breast of the drift and it is thought that an ore shoot of a vertical depth of close to feet is attained and the finding of ore that pans so well in free gold is most encouraging cou raging that a rich shoot of ore is being opened sumpter american the rehabilitation of the old virtue mine over beyond baker goes on apace under the direction of superintendent perin C P loomis men are kept busy in the new workings which a few weeks ago were declared to be fully as rich as anything found in the property durin during its pal days mr loomis declares that with the advent of electricity the ores there will be worth while to work and make it a continuous producer he is now doing all that is necessary to receive the juice when manager romig has it ready for delivery and that he does not believe will bevery be very long |