Show ON THE COPPER BELT OF EASTERN OREGON SPECIAL correspondence laker baker city ore june 10 while all the fiffia camps surrounding baker city are erien cing unusual activity the most ex 1 ng interest is concentrated on the cop belt to the northeast the properties ler der development there are working with erish energy in the development of the ing daily to the thousands of tons of ore already on the dump and which will average about 8 per cent copper and from 5 to 8 per ton in gold and silver most of the available ground between the indiana mine and the north american property at burkemont Bur kemont has been staked and passed through eighty five feet of native copper ore and as a landmark in the history of the copper development of this region he is having struck as samples of the first copper produced medallions of pure copper about the size of a silver dollar with an engraving on one side of the north yf r aw diw 1 l it w fp 1 wy afi 1 ajtay W b ichim r v iise ii sw lait ta t T vot yr fa J SK aa I 1 WK II 11 L as aa RM Sg fiSsE the indiana copper mine on the copper belt e bodies or deposits of the red metal ich characterize by their immensity the stern oregon copper range the per cent J values also suffer nothing in compall ell with other copper sections of the coun 7 at the indiana mine near medical wings rings which is in charge of J W mess r a full force of men is now at work add many new prospects will be opened along the trend of 0 this belt between the two properties mentioned during the present year at burkemont Bur kemont which is n near ear the geographical center cen ter of the copper range D W C nelson manager is down nea nearly aly feet with a double compartment shaft on the me property of the the north american he has american shaft house and on the other an artistic inscription with date of issue on goose creek some sensational developments have recently been made in the property of C 0 cox by the discovery of high grade the work on this property is meagre but the prospects are great even in comparison with those in the active operating camps at burkemont Bur kemont and medical springs in the quartz mines above the copper belt and lying on the range near the foot of the eagle mountains is the cornucopia camp in which a number of mines are clustered around an old gold producer heretofore owned by john E searles of new york this is the union companion and it is locally believed that this property recently passed under the control of the guggenheims at any rate the report is persistent and there are strong reasons warran warranting tint the belief that the gug gen heims now control the union companion on mine the force of men has bean increased to about one hundred and the property is now outputting according to the best information obtainable about per month adjoining the cornucopia is another property on the eve of production the mayflower in charge of manager G W boggs is just completing a cyanide cy anide plant and the reduction of ore from this property will begin early next month the ore bins are full and large reserves are being blocked out in the mine in anticipation of the reduction plant now nearing completion not far from the mayflower the queen of the west company is preparing ground for the erection of a ten stamp mill and it is practically certain from the developments already attained on this prospect that within a very short time it will be added to the list of producers in the cornucopia camp to the west of bal baker er city and lying above powder river valley at the base of the blue mountain range edward I 1 field of the united elkhorn mines is shipping concentrates steadily from the old producer known as the baisley elkhorn 11 since this property passed into the hands of F M hayes of philadelphia which it did about two years ago developments have been proceeding quietly but radically both underground and at the surface an electric power plant was first installed near the foot of the mountain on which this mine is located and a tremendous expense eliminated thereby in the matter of transporting fuel up to the workings which are elevated feet above the valley other economic features were introduced involving a large initial outlay and a big adit tunnel is now being driven near the foot of the mountain which will cut the ore bodies in this property at a depth of 2000 feet one hundred men are employed at this mine and it is understood that the new ogden smelter has contracted for the entire output of ore from the united E elkhorn and that the concentrates are now being shipped there over the summit from the elkhorn the highland property which recently emerges emerged from a siege of litigation has resumed op erat orations ions on an extraordinary ledge consid ered either from the standpoint of size or grade of ore there is a new concentrating with a capacity ot of plant on this property fifty tons daily which it is understood will be taxed to the limit from this time forward in the reduction of the highland ore at timber canyon frank J davey manager is now running ore out of a newly constructed ted tunnel on the property of the timber canyon mines company and preparation is in progress for the erection of a mill at this mine about the middle of july in the quartzburg Quartz burg district the standard mine is steadily producing as is also the equity mining company together with tha copperopolis and aside from the producers in this section a number of promising pros pacts are being worked at the placer camps there is hardly a stream or dry gulch in baker county that has not yielded or is ready to yield placer gold if the question of water were removed the deep snows of the past winter have been especially advantageous vant ageous to the working of placer ground in the country surrounding baker and many new diggings have been opened it would require a special article to enumerate them all but it is sufficient to say in il 11 of the type that sev severa eral Tco conopa nies are operating in slices gulch guich and an it tributaries tributa ries and that all are reaping rich re turns fred eppinger manager of a local organ leation known as the merchants cor chomoa comoa has just come in from cow creek with 1 fruit jar full of gold estimated at a the result of a short run through the bluee 9 boxes on the property of his company be s eral of the will nuggets weigh as high hig 11 as in gold and many of them will run from 5 to 20 all of the gold is especially coarse and easy to recover in ordinary years this property yields about 20 but the increased supply of water this season will enable the owners to make a longer run with the expectation of doubling that I 1 amount in the old sparta camp that has produced its millions in placer gold W F P talmage is at the head of a company which has a ditch nearly one hundred miles long opening out of main eagle which will afford a constant water supply in the development of new placer ground he has just completed a led bed rock flume and will work a large force during the present summer in separating goll goli from the sands and gravel in the virgin ground of saw mill gulch |