Show OREGON grants pass courier work on the famous greenback mine on grave creek will soon be started in earnest by the leas ea ees five of the forty stamp mills will be operated at once and others later on as the demand increases the development work doncon this property during the past few months has made a very nice showing and so good are the indications that the operators fully expect to see the other stamps needed soon granite gem reports from the monumental mine where a small force of miners is employed at development work this winter are very encouraging for that property they are drifting on what is called no 3 vein and the face of this drift shows some exceptionally fine ore better than any yet encountered in the drift work is continuing without interruption and by the time of the spring breakup the monumental camp will undoubtedly be quite a lively one grants pass courier lad had I it not been for recent financial stringency general manager W J morphy was fully expecting to start up the granite hill mine As it is he now contemplates beginning operations early in id the new year this mine has a very fine equipment consisting of electric turbine a big stationary pump and a sinking pump with which to pump out the large amount 0 of water which flowed into the property at first it came at the rate of about gallons per minute but later dropped to about per minute this plant has perhaps one of the finest hoists in the state worth fully and capable of going 2000 feet deep granite gem on last saturday W B bailey one of the owners of the tahoma dahoma group some nine miles from this city on the road to granite came to sumpter with a quantity of ore which he had taken from the four foot vein which lie he recently encountered 4 while driving a tunnel toward the shaft on that property says the american mr bailey secured assays essays which gave him value in gold of 22 per ton he was particularly pleased and announced that lie would probably remain out there all winter endeavoring to open up the property to such an extent as to demonstrate that they have an ore supply which will justify the erection of a milling plant |