| Show OREGON sumpter american on last tuesday morning in granite elmer E thorn thornburg arg informed a representative of the american that he would leave in h a lay day or two with a crew of me men for the den ben harrison where they would be beam in work that would be carried on all win winter ter unless plans an and d calculations calculation a recently made were a altered this property it will be remembered is the one from which cato johns brought in some remarkably fine showings showing 3 last spring recent smelter returns on small smal I 1 shipments have indicated some exceptional values sumpter american on last sunday T S kennerly took another lot of supplies out to the la bellevue mine among them being a quantity of air pipe which indicates that the work of this old property is going to be prosecuted on quite an extensive scale grants pass pacific outlook R S moore who has a working lease on the baby mine on jump off joe made our office a call the first of cf the week he says he and his family have been down with the measles so he has not been able to do much work of late he is carrying on development work and also milling some they generally find the lead lu in place but frequently it faults grants pass pacific outlook henry E booth of merlin made our office a call on monday and said he had been made super of the pickett picket creek mining company and was instructed to put the mine in shape for this winters run this property was formerly known a as s the geo sturgis mine but for the last fifteen years has been owned and operated by geo I 1 drown brown now of portland and captain leale of san francisco they have fourteen miles of ditches two giants nos 2 and 3 and a water pressure of feet mr booth says he will employ this winter six or seven men to 4 keep the property running and expects to see a good sea season son mr booth is vice president and superintendent of the gold geld standard property on pickett creek medford tribune george of jacksonville is in high spirits over what he believes is the greatest strike ever made in the blue ledge mining district the ledge is virtually a continuation of the blue ledge mine and lies on the same ridge a mile south work at the mine has been carried on en under the direction of ed day former formerly y foreman at the blue ledge A par party ty left recently to bring back samples to be assayed the following letter from mr day under date of november tells the story 1 I have struck the dootwal I 1 today and finished here we have hava seventeen feet of ore including in sulphide ore and the spar which is showing better than the sulphide as can be seen by the samples sample 3 have a great 1 success so far it is a good showing fine struck it quicker than I 1 expected to if wait was alive he would go crazy |
