Show OREGON grants pass mining killing journal 7 A ead superintendent of the west coast mines company formerly the oregon securities Torii company pany came in from the mines today and brought a gold brick to the value of the result of a run with fifteen stamps on a fifteen days shift mr ead says everything is running well and that they will get started on the deep tunnel inside of fifteen days this tunnel will be feet long and will be pushed rapidly as possible granite gem at the blue ribbon group on buffalo mountain J B is bending every energy toward reaching the blue vein in the long crosscut cross cut and has now reached the point where he expects any shot to break into the ledge some very rich silver ore hasteen has been taken from the blue ribbon ledge and it is confidently expected that when it is cut by the lower tunnel the blue ribbon will have something to show that will cause mining men to take notice sumpter american that the gem mine out in the susanville sanville Su district is pleasing the people who are now handling it is quite evident G H garner and W C kiser the redfield south dakota men who made the purchase last spring were through here the other day after a number of days spent in in inspecting and investigating we have the ore over there and its carrying values said one of them but we are not going to give up everything for freight so we will just keep on oil establishing ore reserves and if we realize on our present expectations we will be able to build the right kind of a plant even if it requires a smelter baker city democrat J B bowden the well known real estate man and oil enthusiast returned yesterday from malheur malteur county where he located acres of oil lands for himself and eight other baker city people he also brought back with him fine samples of lignite coal found forty miles south of vale in a blanket some twenty feet wide as cut and depth or thickness is unknown the oil lands located are about eight miles southwest of vale perhaps extending ten nyles and there is intense excitement all through that country centered in vale hundreds of people have located claims in every direction A company of which judge robert eakin is president and geo benson secretary is already selling stock upon their oil lands stock on these lands is being taken in baker city but now has been called off the market portland oregonian oregonians Ore gonian A lease has been closed by the sumpter valley railroad company of acres of ground near whitney oregon to the western exploration dredging company of portland the latter COP col por horation po ration ailon of which the late H W goode was president and F M batchelor is secretary and general manager will place a gold dredge in operation on oil the ground the dredging company has been for the last year operating drills in the burnt river valley where it now controls acres of creek bottoms and bench lands where placer gold deposits are known to exist its operations are for the purpose of determining the location and the course of the dredge to be installed its lands are on pine creek camp creek gimlet creek and their tributaries tributa ries all rich placer grounds in the early mining days of eastern oregon |