Show B B WB 11 rk I 1 V IV t IN neighboring STATES f Q it OREGON oregon mining journal the wimer bros hydraulic mine has been running day and night since the loth of november and the simmons cameron mine is also busy geo W wimer jr is foreman of the former and J T lyman is foreman of the latter mine sumpter miner officials of the E evening star Starl mining lining company had A H shipman Ship marf and A J tadlock arrested monday for trespass they had a preliminary hearing yesterday before justice steffen who will render a decision this afternoon the men are attempting to jump the evenin evening star claims sumpter miner eugene sperry and E sanderson smith have paid the original locators for the grizzly group of mines an extension of the ibex lode and transferred the property to john martin and associates mr martin is a well known and successful mining man from trail british columbia and was was formerly largely interested in the noble five he and other owners of the grizzly group will arrive in sumpter in a few days for the purpose of opening up these prospects on an extensive scale in the immediate future baker city democrat colonel ray of port arthur canada who recently purchased the ibex mine for is in the city and was interviewed yesterday by a re proter col ray is much pleased with the progress proff 13 ress being made by 23 skillful miners at the ibex where underground operations are daily giving in better and more plea pleasing sin showings the I 1 ibex bex has already output some phenomenally rich ore but laying aside all figures of ore going from 40 to 60 to the ton it may truthfully be said that the ibex ore goes on an average at least 10 to 15 per ton it is little to be wondered at that the canadian purchaser of the ibex for a round quarter million is pleased with this property which one short year agoras ago was bought by michigan Kic higan capitalists capitali for M J chambers proprietor of the elkhorn hotel of canyon city says the baker city democrat in company with fred page and oliver peone have discovered and located three vast quartz deposits on the very summit of canyon mountain which from the surface indications appear to be valuable property the main ledge ledgers is fully feet in width and the ledge can be traced by droppings crop pings the entire length of the claim and prospects well in gold silver and copper at the east end their claim and ledge is crossed by a canyon a hundred or more feet in depth which affords an excellent place to develop the property at a gr great at depth at the smallest expense mr chambers lids has secured assays essays on the surface quartz from the different locations and has returns showing sh a value of from 12 to 18 per ton NEVADA pioche record the concentrating I 1 mill of J B wheeler at highland 7 has been leased by T J osborne and a test run of ore from the mandah mine will be made at once the ore is well suited to this process of treat treatment mert and there is plenty of low grade and middle material on which to operate white pine news jerry Leal leahlah figh and J L wedekind are i in from their mine across the valley with a number of samples of high grade silver lead and copper ore which they are having assayed they now have out several tons of a first class shipping ore and the mine they inform us gives promise of producing many mo more 1 re tons pioche record wm win lloyd aleck orr and will price took out piro provisions visions mining and other supplies to the Nien dah mine at highland 11 last saturday and are at work on the property the first work will be to catch up the caved ground in the shaft which will occupy about ten days after which the work of prospecting 11 for ore will begin de lanar lamar messenger the blackbird mine at indian peak district 35 miles northeast os stateline Stat eline has about 35 men at work silver predominates but it is so extensive and of such value that the property is now beyond doubt a sure thing and a reduction plant is now being considered to be located convenient to the property de lamar messenger A new strike was reported from the vicinity ty of the klon klondike C like station on the nelson toll road about 18 miles from town last week which c caused use quite a stampede the most important locations were made by A nelson john reece and sam snyder the ledge is 9 feet wide and crops above the ground for 2300 ft in length and an average of the ledge assayed 27 in gold and 6 oz in silv silver er it seems to be more of a deposit than a regular defined ledge and gives indications of a valuable discovery there are several streaks of agate quartz running through the deposit which is between lime and prop hyry and resembles the mercur country several other locations were made with the view of tapping the ore at length galena cor winnemucca silver state in the buena vista mine a large amount of prospecting has been done there is a tunnel run west cross cutting the country nine hundred feet also a shaft sunk on the copper canyon side some two hundred feet and if it had been continued na no doubt it would have opened up a large body of ore the vein vein upon which this shaft is sunk is beyond doubt the white and shiloh vein here there is heavy iron capping the same as found cropping over the rich ore bodies in south dakota this iron vein measures forty feet across and assays essays 5 in gold 6 in silver and 10 per cen cent lead this property is at present presen under bond to eastern capitalists ores taken from this property were shipped and worked by th eSelby smelter and lead company of san francisco in former years and netted as follows one hundred and twenty two tons of ore average yield ounces silver ounces gold and 25 percent lead IDAHO silver city Avala avalanche ficho the trade dollar consolidated mining company will start its ten stamp mill at the black jack about february 1st ast the mill is being put in splendid repair and will repeat its past record for steady and heavy shipments of shining bullion and rich concentrates silver city avalanche the developments in the pauper continue most flattering I 1 the ore chute north at the foot level is now opened for a length of over 50 feet and shows no signs of diminishing drifting south is ia also in in progress on two feet of good milling ore stopping will be commenced as soon as ore sacks arrive it is the intention of the company to sink feet deeper when the necessary supplies can be laid in A sinking pump b has as been ordered elmore bulletin marshall D wilber arrived here sunday night from chicago mr wilber has recently purchased several mining claims near rocky bar and started for that place by private conveyance about noon on tuesday at the sale of the wide west mill machinery tuesday forenoon mr wilber was the purchaser paying the sum of 2335 he will remain at rocky bar for severah several weeks the transfer of these mining properties to marshal D wilber whose capital we are told is unlimited i means much for the good of old rocky bar and we trust will be the cause of other responsible men investing in that locality lewiston tribune harry wray the well weli known prospector and henry hanna hannagan I 1 an arrived yesterday from a prospecting trip in the upper snake river country they made a trip to lewiston from the mouth the salmon river in a small boat and brought with them pounds of rich gold 11 bearing ore from discoveries on the idaho side below the salmon the ore was taken from a 15 foot hole and at that depth the ledge 11 was 10 feet wide mr wray is satisfied the ore will average per ton while carrying copper values the gold will predominate and there is considerable free gold in in the ore four claims have been located by mr kr one of the ledges is 40 feet wide on the surface face and is mineralized across the entire face he i is s sanguine that a big gold camp will soon be developed in that section A large 6 number of other claims have been b een located along the river and the development work on obese properties has exposed rich ore in nearly every instance the ore brought out yesterday will be sent to tacoma for treatment and mr wray will return to the properties immediately |