Show 0 o OREGON j blue blu e mou mountain niala american D B I 1 j general m manager of the M mayflower ay flower in mine ine i the new eldora section wa was S here monday sending ending out additional supplies 11 he e stated that the water power plant was completed and all work was now concentrated on the saw mill upon the completion of 0 which sawing the timbers and lumber for the mill would commence baker city herald manager D W 0 nelson of the north Afner american ican mine today I 1 received a telephone message from the foreman at the mine saying that sulphides sulp hides were beginning to appear in the bottom of the shaft the shaft is now down feet ani and has penetrated almost feet of native copper the sulphides sulp hides were expected at this depth as also was water P loolu gold hill news another example ot C the values of gold hills mines was shown wednesday when J E kirk of the firm of kirk hill brought to town a gold brick valued at nearly one thousand dollars and which was the result of the free milling of seventeen tons of ore taken from the yours truly vein of the lucky dart bart group on sardine creek this is the third cleanup clean up kirk and hill have made during the past winter and spring and is certainly evidence that they have a very rich property grants pass mining journal E A ruth of steamboat made our office a call this friday and informs us that Jacob buntzen Kun his partner and himself have discovered what they think is the largest cinnabar property in the country they say the ledge is twenty feet wide and can be traced for some distance through the country the ledge runs from east to west and the rock also contains gold he has had it examined by experts who say it is cinnabar and runs very rich mr ruth was formerly interested in curry county and sold the half moon placer blacer property to the euchre creek mining milling company grants pass mining journal the famous iron dyke copper mine on the snake river in baker county has been sold to the erie trust company of erie eric pa for nearly under deed of trust and bond the deeds were filed for record yesterday in baker county and comprise nearly pages of brief L printed books and the I ost cost to the company for filing the deeds was just 30 each the sale was made last month at erie pa the consideration named being in non assessable stock of the iron dyke company and in first mortgage bonds in addition to a cash consideration of 1 for years the iron dyke copper mines have been known to be the richest of the great eastern oregon copper belt but their location so many miles from the railroad has made it impossible imp isible for their proper development blue mountain american with but forty feet to go to get beneath the rich glory hole work at the gold nugget is being watched with more than ordinary interest the drift is now in some feet feel and it is carrying a grade of ore which in itself prom aises to make the owners wealthy men the vein is holding an average width 0 of four feet with values running 30 to over per ton while the streak of free gold ore is coming in again some of this ore is almost half gold and will run into the thousands of dollars per ton and sam coffland of baker city one of the owners who visited the mine this week said it etwas was becoming wider as the objective was being neared everything had been arranged at the camp for continuous operations and mr coffland stated that as soon as the drift was beneath the glory hole sacking for shipment to the local smelter would begin |