Show OREGON grants pass outlook C W birum of the oak consolidated mining company of the jump off joe district states that they now have an up to date assay office at the mine he says that development work is going on as usual granite gem As announced last week a force of miners was started working at the la bellevue mine it is understood that the well known old mine is under bond and lease from the owners to T S kennerly and it is under this contract that mr kennerly has started operations ashland tidings H crouch the assayer and mining engineer of this city has accepted a position as assayer a at the opp mine near jacksonville ten stamps are in operation at the mine now and another ten stamp battery already installed will be started as soon as it can be made ready under the of J W opp sumpter american it is a question if even in its pal days the famous old red boy had a finer shoot of ore or one of greater promise than the one now being developed and when it is considered that in its halcyon days the mine was noted for shoots of great permanence and richness a fair idea can be obtained of the recent rich strike granite gem terry mcgovern this week put car and track ina crosscut he is driving at his 0 K group near lawton the tunnel is now in feet and in the next fifty feet will tap the ledge he is after this vein on the surface has a most encouraging showing and when he reaches it with the tunnel lie he expects to find himself well paid for the labor myrtle creek mail L porter was up from silverton a short time ago looking after his mining property on lees creek he has some valuable placer ground out there and showed us a bottle containing some five or six dollars in gold dust which he panned out in a few hours along on the bedrock in the place where the J C lee outfit worked last winter granite gem something over two months ago the red boy strike was made in the concord vein at the time considerable excitement was created in the camp over the discovery and justly so for it had the appearance of being the greatest find made in the country for a number of years since the strike was first made work has been centered at that point in the mine with the result that today there is even more cause for enthusiasm over the showing of the concord vein than when the ledge was first cut sumpter american on last tuesday T S kennerly keberly KeA erly who has an option on the la bellevue out in the granite district left here with several men and some additional supplies with the announcement that lie he would at once begin cleaning out the long crosscut from the main tunnel on the property he says that this work will be much more difficult than he and his forces had in cleaning out the tunnel in the latter they did not have any timbering to do in the entire 1800 feet but in the crosscut which is also 1800 feet he looks to conditions which will require many new sets from the quantity quant I 1 ty of supplies and working material he has there it is quite certain he will not cease operations until the work is completed |