Show OREGON granite gem the lola iola gold mining company in the greenhorns greenhorne Green horns is pushing the work with all possible speed tilis this til th is is the company which was organized a short time ago to take over the metallic bimetallic bi el mine with J A ringold a cincinnati capitalist at the head and the well known mining man W J J smith in charge of the active development work at the mine grants pass outlook charles T tutt jr owner of the takilma smelter and the queen of bronze copper property arrived here monday from colora do springs colo and has gone over to his h is property to make arrangements for starting up the smelter this spring As mr tutt has not returned we cannot give the particulars except to say that the running of the smelter helps to make a large pay roll for this city and gives employment to a large number of men and teams sumpter american T S kennerly the new superintendent for the highland gold mines co was in this week from the mine the first time since assuming his new position he reports things moving along nicely at the property with two shifts working and all parts going smoothly they are 1 driving tile the crosscut and until the ore body is enciu encountered literee lit ered which will be several months hence there will not be very much news from the highland but it is the source of much satisfaction to know the work is being pushed forward on this valuable property under so efficient management granite gem samples of ore runn running ilig better than to the ton were brought into granite this week from the buffalo monitor Alo there is nothing particularly common in the finding of this class of ore in buffalo monitor in fact it is only a few weeks since ora ore assaying to the ton t was encountered the interesting feature of this new discovery is that it is a different ore body from any heretofore worked in the mine being in no 2 ledge which has been newly developed since mr berkeley has been working the ore and has greatly added the tonnage in sight grants pass courier somewhat of a stir in local mining circles was made this week when corey mattison the old time mining man and one of the fortunate owners of the famous oriole mine located in the galice district came into the county seat bringing some specimens from that camp this was in the shape of specimens k 1 that assayed from to to the 1 ton of course it was good to look upon and miners hereabouts were greatly interested F in witnessing the glittering sight mr mattison reported that his people were shipping ore 01 e by the carload to the tacoma smelter and that it had been bringing 11 per ton right t along with little variation but this new strike has raised their expectations not a little and they are anticipating some mighty interesting returns from future developments in that camp |