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Show HHregi ie of hess Judge G. W. Bartch, After Extended Western Trip, Recounts Observations. I j SEES BLUE LEDGE CAMP j Notes Much Interest in San Francisco and Other California Cali-fornia Towns in Mining. I ! Judge George TV. Bartch, former chief I Justice of the supreme court of Utah and j a well-known mining expert, who re- ! turned two days ago from an extended western trip, gave out an account of his observations as follows: Within the last two weeks I visited vis-ited the Pacific coast. From Med-ford. Med-ford. Ore., I proceeded to the Blue ; Ledee mining' camp, which is partly In Oregon and partly In California, the boundary line passing through the camp. I was there several days and visited a number of mining properties, proper-ties, but all of them were simply prospects in a schist formation. The ledges are large and continuous on the strike, running In an easterly and westerly direction, but I observed no cross fissureB. The principal mineral is cooper, and the ledges appear to terminate a t a large granite dike, which doubtless forms the eastern terminus of the mineral zone. The ; Blue Ledge is the only mine that is developed to any considerable extent, and I visited that on a former occasion. occa-sion. On this occasion X examined I several prospects, located on ledges , parallel to the Blue T.-edge. showing good-sized bodies of milling ore in the surface open cuts. In one lnet a nee I found some ore of shipping grade. Interest in Nevada. On my way to Med ford I stopped several days at Oakland and Pan Francisco and found much interest manifested in mining, especially as to mines in Nevada. The gold mines of the Manhattan mining district attracted at-tracted much a Uentiorr. I conferred with several parties who had just come from Manhattan. Their descriptions de-scriptions of the activities in that camp reminder one of what was going on in the early days before the earthquake earth-quake destroyed San Francisr-o and occasioned the cessation of mining operations op-erations at Manhattan. It appears that the management of the White Caps mine, located just beyond the eastern part of the town of Manhattan, has recently cut a vein of ore which, for fourteen feet in width, averaged about $100 a ton In , gold, and that they have blocked out vast bodies of good milling ore. A number of mills have been erected and are being operated. One of the White Caps is about to be finished and all the others are said to be making large profits. It was stated that one of those mills, treating about 175 tons a day, was simply mining the surface, and that the mill was making large profits from the shovel i proposition, the property being on a i - - , . mineral belt of considerable width which averages about a ton in gol1, free milling ore, the gold appearing in its native state. Ore Goes to Depth. From my former observations, and from what I learned on my visit to California and from reports respecting respect-ing the White Caps mines and other producing mines which have now demonstrated the continuity of the ore on the dip. with increasing richness, rich-ness, to a depth of 400 or 600 feet, it seems but reasonable that the eame vein, traceable through the Uno ground and beyond, should, at the cross fissure above referred to on that ground, produce like results as have been obtained from the properties mentioned and located on that ledge. Tt Is the purpose of the Manhattan Uno M. & M.' company to commence operations on the Uno patented ground forthwith. The company baa already purchased a com pie te hoisting hoist-ing plant, to be Installed at the shaft J winch was sunk at the time of the San Francisco earthquake to a depth : of 1000 feet in a cross fissure at a point about 100 feet south of said I east-and-west fissure and east of the j fault in 'the vein. J Ore Shipments Released. j The Utah Ore Sampling company yes- I terday reported the release of ore as fol- lows: Utah. 8 cars; Nevada, 6 cars; i Colorado, 1 car; Idaho, 1 car. |